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Government hangs 100th convict,
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday carried out its 100th execution since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty last December, in what rights group Amnesty International described as a “shameful milestone”.
Hangings resumed after the country’s bloodiest-ever militant attack, in which the Taliban gunned down 154 people — mostly children — at a school in the northwest.
Munir Hussain, who was convicted of a double murder in 2000, was hanged in the town of Vehari in Punjab province, said Syed Babar Ali Shah, superintendent of Vehari jail.
“He was convicted for murdering his nephew and niece with an axe over a property dispute in November 2000,” said Shah, adding that Hussain was sentenced to death in 2001. A second prison official confirmed the execution.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday carried out its 100th execution since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty last December, in what rights group Amnesty International described as a “shameful milestone”.
Hangings resumed after the country’s bloodiest-ever militant attack, in which the Taliban gunned down 154 people — mostly children — at a school in the northwest.
Munir Hussain, who was convicted of a double murder in 2000, was hanged in the town of Vehari in Punjab province, said Syed Babar Ali Shah, superintendent of Vehari jail.
“He was convicted for murdering his nephew and niece with an axe over a property dispute in November 2000,” said Shah, adding that Hussain was sentenced to death in 2001. A second prison official confirmed the execution.
