article_snippet: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a moratorium on the death penalty on December 17, a day after Pakistani Taliban gunmen attacked a school and killed 134 students and 19 adults.
article_snippet: Late last year, Pakistan's prime minister lifted the death-penalty moratorium specifically for terror-related cases after the December Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar killed 153 people, most of 153 people children.
article_snippet: Last week, in a controversial step, the government completely lifted the death-penalty ban for all cases.
article_snippet: The moratorium on executions had been in place since a democratic government took power from a military ruler in 2008.
highlights_snippet: Prime Minister lifted the moratorium after Taliban terror attack on a school .
  