Dhaka, April 8 -- The jail authorities sent the former army captain's mercy petition to the home ministry, Additional Inspector General of Prisons Col Md Abrar Hossain told bdnews24.com on Wednesday evening.

"We are waiting for the next order. We are ready to execute whatever order we get," he added.

Earlier in the day, a Dhaka court issued a death warrant against Mazed, opening the way for his execution.

The jail authorities read out the death warrant to him at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.

He was arrested in Mirpur on Tuesday, four and a half decades after the murder.

The death sentence could be executed any day between Apr 21 and 28, according to the lawyer, according to Mosharraf Hossain Kazol, one of the lawyers for the ...