article_snippet: Attention to Shafqat Hussain case comes in the wake of an announcement by Pakistan that his case would lift his case moratorium on the death penalty for all cases -- not just for those tried in anti-terrorism courts.
article_snippet: Pakistan lifted the death penalty moratorium for terrorism cases following the attack on an Army Public School in Peshawar, which left at least 145 teachers and students dead.
article_snippet: It was the deadliest act of terror in Pakistan's history.
article_snippet: The decision to lift the death penalty moratorium for terrorism cases on all cases affects more than 8,000 prisoners currently on death row, the largest number in the world.
article_snippet: The lifting of the death penalty moratorium for terrorism cases has caused an uproar of criticism by human rights groups in Pakistan and abroad.
article_snippet: It's like responding to a blood bath by indulging in blood lust themselves," Zohra Yusuf, the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan told CNN.
article_snippet: Executions on this scale tend to brutalize society.
article_snippet: Earlier this week the European Union released a statement on the European Union website calling Pakistan to "reinstitute the death penalty moratorium for terrorism cases and to respect fully all the European Union international obligations, in particular the principle of fair trial.
article_snippet: a statement on its website calling Pakistan to "reinstitute the moratorium and to respect fully all its international obligations, in particular the principle of fair trial also said that Pakistan is a party to an international covenant "that specifically prohibits the use of the death sentence for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age."​ .