LAHORE: Three death row prisoners were executed in the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday morning.

Condemned prisoners Nadeem Shahzad of Garhi Shahu and Abdul Samad alias Samar John of Youhanabad were sentenced to death for killing an MBA student in 1998. They were found guilty in a kidnap for ransom-cum-murder case.

They killed the student when his family failed to pay them ransom.

Riaz Yousuf of Township was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court for killing a woman and her four children in 1999 in robbery resistance.

Their bodies were handed over to their families.

Earlier, the execution of convicted prisoners had been suspended for a month by the federal government prior to the commencement of Ramazan. However, hangings resumed after Eidul Fitr and two condemned prisoners were executed in Multan Jail on Monday.

The moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases was lifted in the wake of the Taliban attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School in December last year.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2015

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