Temporary reprieve for death row prisoners, including Shafqat Hussain, sentenced to hang for killing seven-year-old boy in 2004 Pakistan has imposed a one-month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials have said, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of his crime. On Wednesday, in the face of international condemnation, Pakistan hanged one man allegedly tortured into confessing to murder as a minor and rejected an appeal...
Temporary reprieve for death row prisoners, including Shafqat Hussain, sentenced to hang for killing seven-year-old boy in 2004 Pakistan has imposed a one-month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials have said, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of his crime. On Wednesday, in the face of international condemnation, Pakistan hanged one man allegedly tortured into confessing to murder as a minor and rejected an appeal...
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