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PAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW PRISONERS SAVED FROM GALLOWS

January 8, 2015: between 6 and 8 January, Pakistan stopped the execution of two death row inmates scheduled to be executed after the government ended its moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism cases following the 16 December attack on an army school in Peshawar.
On 6 January, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar stopped the execution of a juvenile offender that was scheduled for 14 January. Shafqat Hussain, 23, was convicted of the 2004 murder of a seven-year-old boy when he was just 15-years-old. Rights groups and some members of parliament have campaigned in support of Hussain and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar called off the execution and ordered an inquiry. Hussain was convicted by an anti-terrorism court – not in a juvenile court despite his age – and handed the death penalty. The case went to appeal but Hussain's age was not seen as any reason to overturn the sentence, despite the fact that the death penalty cannot be imposed on minors in Pakistan.
On 8 January 2015, death row convict Akramul Haq alias Aka Lahori’s execution was stopped when the complainant family agreed to pardon him. The prisoner involved in the murder of Nayyar Abbas in Shorkot area in 2001 was sentenced to death in 2004 by an anti-terrorism court in Faisalabad. He was scheduled to be executed in the morning at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore but the respondents submitted the pardon accord to the magistrate hours before the scheduled time of execution. (Sources: AFP, 06/01/2015; dailytimes.com.pk, 08/01/2015)

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AFGHANISTAN: COURT DELIVERS DEATH SENTENCE TO KILLER OF TWO AID WORKERS
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INDIA: ODISHA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR TWIN MURDER
PAKISTAN: SC ACQUITS 7 DEATH ROW CONVICTS IN IRANIAN CONSULATE ATTACK CASE
PAKISTAN: TWO MORE DEATH ROW PRISONERS HANGED IN KARACHI AND LAHORE
OKLAHOMA (USA): CHARLES WARNER EXECUTED
FLORIDA (USA): JOHNNY SHANE KORMONDY EXECUTED
IRAN: 12 PRISONERS HANGED IN 5 CITIES
SUDAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR SPLM-N LEADERS
SYRIA: MILITANTS EXECUTE WOMAN FOR ‘ADULTERY’
PAKISTAN: SEVEN CONVICTS HANGED IN FOUR JAILS
GEORGIA (USA): ANDREW BRANNAN EXECUTED
MALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT SENTENCES COPS TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MONGOLIAN MODEL
PAKISTAN: 4 TALIBAN MILITANTS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR ATTACKING ISI OFFICE
SAUDI ARABIA: WOMAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING STEPDAUGHTER, 7
SAUDI ARABIA: INDONESIA PAYS $1.87 MILLIONS TO SAVE MAID FROM DEATH ROW
SAUDI ARABIA: ETHIOPIAN KILLER MAID GETS DEATH SENTENCE
CHINA: SCHOOL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL EXECUTED FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING GIRL
PAKISTAN: ANOTHER CONVICTED TERRORIST HANGED IN RAWALPINDI
LEBANON: 5 BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2007 KILLINGS
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IRAN: 3 PRISONERS HANGED IN SANANDAJ
SINGAPORE: DRUG COURIER SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR HELPING CNB IN PROBE
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