DHAKA: Three of the five former Bangladesh Army officers sentenced to death for the 1975 murder of the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Saturday sought clemency from the president.
"Three of (them) have submitted mercy petitions," a jail official said.
Bazlul Huda, Mohiuddin Ahmed and A.K.M. Mohiuddin sent their appeals to the jail authorities, reported ATN Bangla.
The Dhaka district and sessions judge Jan 3 sent the signed death warrants of the five convicts - Bazlul Huda, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Syed Faruque Rahman, Sultan Shahriyar Rashid Khan and A.K.M. Mohiuddin - to the Dhaka Central Jail.
The Supreme Court, in a long-awaited judgement Nov 19 last year, rejected appeals of the five convicted killers and upheld their death sentences.
Saturday was the last date to seek clemency from the president, Star Online reported.
The condemned men had seven days from the receipt of the death warrants to seek clemency, according to law.
The government led by Mujib's daughter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has ignored an appeal by Amnesty International that the death sentences should be converted to life imprisonment.