Four death row prisoners were hanged on early Tuesday morning in the jails of Kasur and Gujrat. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families.
According to details, death row prisoner, Akram, was hanged in the District Jail Kasur. Akram was executed for killing a man named Asif of Sabzazar, Lahore in 1998.
Three death row convicts were executed in the District Jail Gujrat. Death row prisoners Nisar, Ghazanfar and Annar had killed tow real brother over an old enmity in 2000.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium on the death penalty on December 17, 2014, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a school and killed 134 students and 19 adults. The killings put pressure the government to do more to tackle the insurgency. Since then more than 250 death row prisoners, including terrorists and murderers have been hanged in various jails of the country.
