Pakistan ranks third on list of most executions in a year

October 18, 2015 19:47

Pakistan has become one of the world's top three executioners, joining the likes of China and Iran. Pakistan has so far executed 260 people since the government lifted a moratorium on capital punishment following the Peshawar massacre in December last year. Executions in Pakistan have been the highest in a single calendar year over the past decade and outnumbered the 179 executions carried out in the country from 2007-2014.Pakistan has hanged at least 432 condemned prisoners since 2007 while awarding death sentence to 2,196 prisoners in that time, according to data gathered from Amnesty International and the ministry of Interior.China and Iran top the list of countries for the most executions since 2007 with 2,727 and 2,635executions, respectively.

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