Pak hangs 9 in busy day of executions

October 13, 2015 20:29

Pakistan today executed nine convicts, including four brothers, in the latest hangings since it lifted a moratorium on death penalty last year

following the Peshawar carnage.

The executions were carried out in four cities of the largest province of Punjab - Gujrat, Bahawalpur, Multan and Attock, an official of interior ministry said.

Two brothers were executed in district jail Gujrat, while separately, another two brothers were sent to the gallows in Bahawalpur.

A man convicted for murder in a separate case was also hanged in Bahawalpur.

Two men were hanged in Multan in southern Punjab while a man who had killed two persons in a village of Attock district was hanged in the district jail.

In all cases, the executed men had exhausted their appeals against conviction and the president had also rejected their mercy petitions.

None of them was convicted for terrorism.

Pakistan lifted moratorium on executions in December after the Taliban attacked a school and killed 150 people, mostly students.

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