Pakistan ends death penalty suspension after seven years

Pakistan is to resume executions for all death penalty offences, months after a moratorium was partially lifted to allow executions of terror convicts

All condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected now face execution

Executions were suspended for seven years until some resumed after the Peshawar school massacre in December 2014
The lifting of the moratorium was outlined in a letter from the interior ministry

 

More than 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, human rights groups say

About 1,000 have lost their appeals and had clemency petitions rejected

The move, which ends a seven-year-long suspension of executions in Pakistan, was condemned as "irresponsible" by human rights law firm Justice Project Pakistan