Pakistan hangs 12 convicts in resumed execution programme

Among more than 40 people scheduled to hang in coming weeks is convict whose lawyers say was tortured into confessingPakistan has hanged 12 convicts, an interior ministry spokesman said, amid growing alarm over plans to execute a man whose lawyers say was 14 when he was tortured into a confession of killing a child. The hangings, on Tuesday, were the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December. Officials said they