Pakistan Death Penalty
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Pakistan Among World's Harshest Users Of Death Penalty: Report
Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.
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Pakistan Uses Executions As Political Weapon: Rights Group
A human rights watchdog on Friday accused Pakistan of using executions as a "political tool" - and even a means to deal with prison overcrowding.
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Pakistan Hangs Man Who Had Said he Was 15 at Time of Crime he Didn't Commit
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man who said he was 15 when he was arrested for a murder he did not commit in the latest case to shine a spotlight on Pakistan's haphazard justice system.
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Pakistan Postpones Killer's Execution for Fourth Time
A Pakistani killer was granted a fourth stay of execution today, with campaigners saying his high-profile case will go to the Supreme Court over claims he was a juvenile when the murder was committed and so can not be put to death.
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Pakistan to Execute Eight More Terror Convicts: Reports
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued death warrants against eight terror convicts, weeks after the government lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases following the brazen Peshawar school attack.
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Pakistan to End Death Penalty Moratorium in Terror Cases
Pakistan is to end its moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases, the prime minister's office announced today, a day after Taliban militants killed 141 people in an attack on a school.
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Pakistan brings back death penalty, to anger of rights groups
Pakistan's new government, striving to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned as "shocking and retrograde" by rights group Amnesty International.
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Pakistan Among World's Harshest Users Of Death Penalty: Report
Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.
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Pakistan Uses Executions As Political Weapon: Rights Group
A human rights watchdog on Friday accused Pakistan of using executions as a "political tool" - and even a means to deal with prison overcrowding.
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Pakistan Hangs Man Who Had Said he Was 15 at Time of Crime he Didn't Commit
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man who said he was 15 when he was arrested for a murder he did not commit in the latest case to shine a spotlight on Pakistan's haphazard justice system.
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Pakistan Postpones Killer's Execution for Fourth Time
A Pakistani killer was granted a fourth stay of execution today, with campaigners saying his high-profile case will go to the Supreme Court over claims he was a juvenile when the murder was committed and so can not be put to death.
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Pakistan to Execute Eight More Terror Convicts: Reports
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued death warrants against eight terror convicts, weeks after the government lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases following the brazen Peshawar school attack.
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Pakistan to End Death Penalty Moratorium in Terror Cases
Pakistan is to end its moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases, the prime minister's office announced today, a day after Taliban militants killed 141 people in an attack on a school.
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Pakistan brings back death penalty, to anger of rights groups
Pakistan's new government, striving to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned as "shocking and retrograde" by rights group Amnesty International.
