Staff Reporter :
Shahjahan Bhuiyan, 74, a much-talked executioner in Bangladesh, also the hangman for 26 convicts, including the killers of Bangabandhu, has died.
He was brought to the Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Monday.
DMP Tejgaon zone’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station’s in-charge Mohammad Ahad Ali confirmed the matter to the media saying that the duty doctors pronounced him dead in the morning.
Executioner Shahjahan
was released in June last year after 32 years behind bars for robbery and murder. Shahjahan was sentenced to 42 years in prison in 1991 but the term was commuted by 10 years and five months.
He has served as a hangman since 2001, which earned him fame as the ‘Jallad’ or executioner. Those he executed included Bangabandhu’s killers Bajlul Huda, Muhiuddin, Syed Faruq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Lancer Mohiuddin Ahmed and Captain Abdul Majed.
He also hanged war criminals Quader Molla, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Motiur Rahman Nizami and Mir Qasem Ali.
Others executed by him included notorious criminal Ershad Shikder, militant leader Bangla Bhai, Ataur Rahman Sani, Sharmin Reema murder convict Monir and Daisy murder case convict Hasan.