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Pakistan

Eight convicted murderers hanged

Pakistan hanged eight more convicted murderers on Tuesday, a day ahead of the first anniversary of an extremist attack that prompted authorities to lift a six-year moratorium on the death penalty. Pakistan reinstated executions last year as part of a crackdown on extremism after Taliban attackers gunned down more than 150 people, most of them children, at an army-run school on Dec 16, 2014.