Pakistan Executes Man Who Killed Child as Minor

A Pakistani prison official says authorities have executed a man convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy in 2004, when he himself was 14 years old.  Official Iqbal Hassan says Shafqat Hussain was hanged shortly before dawn on Tuesday at a Karachi prison. His relatives were allowed to visit him for the last time on Monday evening. Hussain's execution had been stayed four times amid the controversy over executing someone who committed a crime as a minor. Local and international...

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