Two more prisoners convicted of murder were hanged in Pakistan on Thursday taking the number of executions in three days to 23.
The two condemned prisoners were sent to the gallows in Sargodha and Sahiwal jails early on Thursday, Geo News reported.
On Tuesday, Pakistan hanged 17 convicts, which marks the highest number of executions in a single day since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted.
Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10. Initially, the moratorium was lifted and executions were resumed for terrorism offences only in the wake of a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar in which more than 140 people, mostly children, were killed.
The latest executions on Thursday took the number of convicts hanged to at least 87.
The UN, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to reimpose the moratorium on the death penalty.
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