One more death row convict hanged
Death row prisoner Muhammad Akram was hanged in Sahiwal on Thursday.
SAHIWAL (Dunya News) – One death row convict was executed on the Sahiwal Central Jail on early Thursday morning, Dunya News reported. The dead body of the prisoner was handed over to his heirs.
Death row prisoner Muhammad Akram, a resident of Arifwala, was hanged for killing a man named Tufail over a land dispute in 1999 in the jurisdiction of Khadyan Police Station.
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An Additional Sessions Judge of Kasur had awarded him death sentence in the case in 2002.
More than 320 death row prisoners have been hanged so far as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalty on December 17, 2014 for those convicted for terrorism a day after the deadly attack on Army Public School in Peshawar that left 150 persons including mostly children dead. There are more than 8,000 prisoners on death row in the country.
