A Pakistani death row convict lodged in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Central Jail today died of brain hemorrhage.
Umer Rasheed, who was sentenced to death for a murder, was shifted to Jinnah Hospital for medical treatment after his condition deteriorated a day earlier.
He had suffered a "huge shock/depression" which resulted in the brain hemorrhage, doctors said.
Police took the body into custody and shifted it to a mortuary for a postmortem examination. After the autopsy, Rasheed's body will be handed over to his family.
He had been sentenced to death for committing a murder in Lahore's Factory area.
Earlier on December 22, a condemned prisoner at Mianwali Central Jail, who had been sentenced to death for murdering his wife on suspicion, had died of heart failure.
In the wake of Peshawar school massacre that killed 150 people mostly children, Pakistan government has decided to execute hundreds of inmates on death row.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had ordered the lifting of self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases.
