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Pakistan brings back death penalty, to anger of rights groups  Sunday, Jul 07, 2013 05:10 AM PDT By Syed Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's new government, trying to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned by international organizations as inhuman and retrograde. Up to 8,000 people languish on death row in dozens of Pakistan's notoriously overcrowded and violent jails. Once a moratorium is in place, reinstatement of capital punishment is rare, with more than 150 countries having already either abolished the death penalty or stopped administering it. ... Full Story

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