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Pakistan hangs 12 in largest execution since ban overturned
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Pakistain hanged 12 convicts on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, amid a growing uproar over plans to execute a man whose lawyers say was 14 when he was tortured into a confession of killing a child.Tuesday's hangings, including one man whose lawyers say he was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... when he was 16, were the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December. Posted by: Fred 2015-03-18 |
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