RAWALPINDI: Mumtaz Qadri, convicted for the murder of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, was executed in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail early Monday morning, jail and Punjab police said.
Qadri was hanged after President Mamnoon Hussain dismissed his clemency appeal.
Mumtaz Qadri, a bodyguard of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province, shot him dead in the federal capital Islamabad in 2011.
"Qadri was hanged at around 4:30am," senior police officer Rizwan Omar Gondal said.
Late in 2011, an anti-terrorism court handed down a double death sentence to Qadri for murder and terrorism.
The sentence was appealed and upheld by the Supreme Court late last year.
The jail authorities arranged a meeting of Mumtaz Qadri with his family before he was hanged. His body was later handed over to his family members.
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