The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division has fixed May 5 for giving the verdict on war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition filed against the death penalty awarded to him. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha fixed the date on Tuesday after concluding hearing on the petition.Nizami’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain started placing arguments before the bench, which started the day’s proceedings around 9:25am.On March 29, Nizami’s lawyers filed the petition praying to the apex court for his acquittal.The SC on January 6 this year upheld his death sentence on three charges and life term imprisonment on two other charges.The ICT issued the death warrant against him hours after the SC had released its full verdict on March 15.