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Pakistan Puts 12 to Death in Single Day

Pakistani officials say they executed 12 male convicts Tuesday, in the largest single-day total since the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty. Ten prisoners were hanged at jails in Punjab province, while two others were hanged in the southern city of Karachi. Revocation of the policy was first applied only to those prisoners convicted of terrorism offences, but last week news emerged that the change had been widened to include all prisoners on death row whose appeals...


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