DHAKA: Two experienced executioners—Shajahan and Razu-- are ready to carry out the death sentences of war criminals Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mujaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

Besides, one other executioner named Sattar has been kept standby, Jail authority confirmed on Thursday night.

Shajahan carried the execution of another war criminal Quader Molla on December 12 in 2013 and Razu executed Razakar Kamaruzzaman on April 12 in 2014.

Earlier on Thursday night, verdicts of the review appeal were read out to the both death row war crimes convicts.

On November 18, the Appellate Division of SC upheld the ICT death sentences for Chowdhury and Mujahid for their respective crimes during the country’s war of independence in 1971.

BDST: 0901 HRS, NOV 20, 2015
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