Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday hanged five more death row prisoners in various jails of Punjab province, taking to 71 the number of executions since the country reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December.
One convict was executed in Adiala Jail for killing six people while another was hanged for killing a colleague.
Two more murder convicts were executed in Gujranwala Central Jail. Another prisoner was hanged in Faisalabad Central Jail. He was convicted of killing a woman during robbery.
Pakistan had already hanged 71 prisoners since lifting moratorium on the death penalty in December last year after Taliban attack at an army-run school in Peshawar killed more than 150 people, mostly students.
There are more than 8,000 death row prisoners in the country.
The UN, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have urged Pakistan government to re-impose the moratorium on the death penalty.
