Pakistan has executed a teen who was convicted of killing a child in 2004, despite appeals from international human rights groups not to go ahead with it.
Shafqat Hussain, whose case sparked international outcry, was executed at the Karachi Central Prison on Tuesday morning. He was arrested and convicted in 2004 for the kidnapping and killing of a seven-year-old boy in Karachi.
Various local and international human rights groups contended that he was convicted at the age of 14 and was deprived of his rights as a juvenile.
All of his appeals were turned down. Initially he was scheduled to be hanged on January 14 this year, but the execution was postponed as a controversy cropped up about his age.