The gallows, not jail, had always seemed the more likely destination for Abdul Quader Mollah. A leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's biggest Islamic party, he was convicted earlier this year of five counts of crimes against humanity. They were committed during the country's war of secession from Pakistan, in 1971. Now the Supreme Court has ordered that he will hang. The decision is popular. It overturns an original life sentence in February, which many thought too lenient.
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