Four prisoners were hanged early Tuesday in different jails across the Punjab province in Pakistan. The men were condemned for crimes such as murder and kidnapping. The recent hanging brought the total number of executions to 65 since December last year.
A moratorium on the death penalty had been in force since 2008, but executions were restarted by the government in December, after Taliban militants attacked and killed 154 people, most of them children, at a school in the northwest city of Peshawar.
