PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER IN 15TH PUNJAB EXECUTION IN TWO WEEKS

Tauseef Munna was hanged till death in the 15th execution in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last two weeks. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002 for killing a four-year old boy. Prosecution lawyers said that the boy was kidnapped from the town of Kamoke, and a demand was made for a 200,000 rupees ($3,316, £1,800) ransom. Human rights groups condemned the executions as "unjust and inhuman".
"We have grave reservations about the high level of exactions in Pakistani Punjab in recent days," a spokesman for Amnesty International said.
"We think the many of the convictions are not safe and not satisfactory, quite apart from our ethical objections to capital punishment."
The prosecution in the trial of Tauseef Munna said that the boy was killed by him when he did not receive ransom money.
His appeal against his guilty verdict was turned down by the Lahore High Court in June 2002.
Three years later, the court also rejected his appeal against the death penalty, and President Pervez Musharraf turned down an appeal for clemency.