Five death row prisoners were executed on Friday in Kot Lakhpat Jail and Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
Three death row prisoners were executed in Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Nadeem Shahzad of Garhi Shahu and Samar John of Youhanabad were hanged for murdering an MBA student in 1999. What started as a kidnapping of the student ended with his murder after the two killers did not receive the demanded ransom.
Riaz Yousuf of Township was also hanged in Kot Lakhpat Jail early Friday. He was convicted for murdering a woman and her four children in 1999.
Zafar Iqbal of Mandara and Muhammad Ashraf of Wah Cantt were hanged in Adiala Jail. Both were convicted of murder in separate cases, with the former being convicted in 2000 and the latter in 2002.