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Pakistan executes Shafqat Hussain despite appeals

KARACHI: -- Pakistan has executed Shafqat Hussain, convicted of killing a child in 2004, despite appeals from international human rights groups.


His lawyers say he was 14 when found guilty and his confession was extracted by torture, but officials say there is no proof he was a minor when convicted.

He met his family one last time before midnight, then was hanged shortly before dawn at a jail in Karachi.
Legal challenges saw his execution postponed four times this year.

But despite the postponements, legal challenges and intense lobbying, all his appeals for mercy were ultimately turned down.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33767835

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-- BBC 2015-08-04

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So they appease the crowd by executing the killer of a boy but they pardon and vacate sentences of the would be killers of Malala because she's a girl.

I don't think that was the reason...do you have information to back your claim?

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So they appease the crowd by executing the killer of a boy but they pardon and vacate sentences of the would be killers of Malala because she's a girl.

I don't think that was the reason...do you have information to back your claim?

Yeah, he;s dead. and she isn't.

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