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Pakistan lifts death penalty moratorium Pakistan lifts death penalty moratorium in all cases
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Pakistan is to lift its moratorium on the death penalty for all capital offences, after earlier restarting it for terrorism offences only. Pakistan is to resume executions for all capital offences, after earlier lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism offences only.
Executions will resume for condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected, officials say. All condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected, now face execution, officials say.
The moratorium had been partially lifted for terrorism offences following a massacre in Peshawar in December. The partial lifting for terror offences followed a massacre at a school in Peshawar in December.
More than 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, human rights groups say.More than 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, human rights groups say.
The move, which ends a seven-year-long suspension of executions in Pakistan, was condemned as "irresponsible" by human rights law firm Justice Project Pakistan.
"We've seen time and time again that there is immeasurable injustice in Pakistan's criminal justice system, with a rampant culture of police torture, inadequate counsel and unfair trials," said executive director Sarah Belal.
"Despite knowing this, the government has irresponsibly brought back capital punishment."
More than 150 people, all but nine of them children, died in the Taliban attack on the Army Public school in Peshawar.