SARGODHA: Three condemned prisoners -- Ghulam Rasool, Imran and Muhammad Yaqoob -- were hanged till death on Tuesday in the district jail on Tuesday.

They were residents of Bhalwal and had been convicted of killing four people during a robbery in the house of Muhammad Bashir in Deowal village on Feb 29, 2008.

They were sentenced to death by the anti-terrorism court in 2010 which was upheld by subsequent courts and their mercy petition was also rejected by the president.

District and Sessions Judge Sohail Ikram signed death warrant of another convict Shahshad Ali, of Qudratabad. He will be executed on July 13 at the Faisalabad Central Jail.

He had kidnapped and killed Ali Raza, a boy of his village, on Dec 19, 1999.

Published in Dawn, July 12th, 2017