Two death row prisoners convicted of murder were hanged to death in Multan Central Jail on Monday — the latest executions as the federal government’s month-long moratorium on executions expired with the end of Ramzan.
Convict Farooq Babar had been found guilty of killing a man in 1998 after he failed to return an amount of borrowed money.
Another prisoner, Karim Nawaz, was convicted of murdering a man over an old feud.
“Two prisoners, Farooq alias Farooqa and Karim Nawaz, who had been awarded capital punishment, have been hanged in central jail in Multan today,” Chaudhry Arshad Saeed, a senior government adviser for prisons in Punjab told AFP.
“Both of these convicts were awaiting the death penalty for murdering people in separate cases. They have been executed after resumption of hangings following a temporary moratorium because of Ramzan,” he said.
The mercy petitions of both convicts were turned down by the president of Pakistan.
Executions of convicted prisoners had been suspended by the federal government on June 13 in respect of the holy month of Ramzan, with these to be resumed after Eidul Fitr.
