LAHORE (Web Desk) – Four death row convicts were hanged in the jails of Lahore, Bahawalpur, Toba Tek Singh and Dera Ghazi Khan on early Wednesday morning.
Death row convict Fayaz was executed in the New Central Jail Bahawalpur. Fayaz was awarded death sentence for killing his would-be son-in-law just before marriage in 1997.
Death row prisoner Qamar Zaman was executed in District Jail Toba Tek Singh. Qamar was awarded death penalty for killing a man named Iqbal in 2001.
Another death row prisoner, Saif, was sent to the gallows in District Jail Dera Ghazi Khan. Saif was guilty of killing two people, including his wife, in the name of honour in 1996.
Another murderer, Munir, was hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore. He was awarded death sentence in 2003 while execution of two other convicts was postponed.
More than 250 death row prisoners have been hanged so far as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalty on December 17, 2014 for those convicted for terrorism a day after the deadly attack on Army Public School in Peshawar that left 150 persons including mostly children dead.
There are more than 8,000 prisoners on death row in the country.
