The convicts underwent a medical check-up before the execution amid tight security measures taken by jail authorities.
A death warrant was issued to Sajid alias Taaroo for being involved in a murder case while Muhammad Akhtar Urfand was sentenced to death in a rape case, jail authorities said.
On Thursday, a convicted prisoner was executed in the first ever hanging at District jail Toba Tek Singh. Muhammed Siddique who was a security guard at a cinema at Kamalia was awarded death sentence by the Anti-Terrorism court on charge of killing three people while opening indiscriminate fire at a cinema in 2004.
Friday’s hanging brought the number of executions in the country to 27.
Recently, the Human Rights Watch had requested Pakistan to take the death penalty off the table in the wake of the government’s decision to completely lift the moratorium on death penalty.
