Islamabad, April 16 (IANS) Three murder convicts were hanged in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Thursday, a media report said.
Two convicts, Ejaz and Abdul Jabbar, were executed in the Gujranwala Central Jail, Geo News reported. While Ejaz was sentenced for killing a man in 1995, Jabbar was convicted for a murder in 2001.
The third convict, Zafar Iqbal, was executed in Faisalabad Central Jail. He was found guilty of killing a woman in 2005.
Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10.
Initially, executions were resumed only for terrorism offences in the wake of Taliban massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar which claimed more than 150 lives, mostly school children, on December 16, 2014.