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Pakistan resumes death penalty

Officials say executions will resume for condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected.
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Pakistan will now resume implementing the death penalty after earlier placing a moratorium on it for all capital offences, BBC reports.

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The country had partially lifted the moratorium for terrorism offences in December following a massacre in Peshawar.

Human rights groups say more than 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan.

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