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Dec. 17, 2014 / 10:28 AM

Pakistan reinstates death penalty in wake of deadly school attack

A coffin of a victim of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan is carried from an ambulance on December 16, 2014. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, reinstated the country's death penalty a day after the deadly attacks. UPI/Sajjad Ali Queshi

A coffin of a victim of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan is carried from an ambulance on December 16, 2014. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, reinstated the country's death penalty a day after the deadly attacks. UPI/Sajjad Ali Queshi | License Photo

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reinstated the death penalty Wednesday, a day after a deadly Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar.

Tuesday's attack targeted children and shocked a country accustomed to news of violence. Most of the children killed, 132 in total, were between the ages of 12 and 16.

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The government declared a three day mourning period beginning Wednesday and an official with Sharif's office announced "The prime minister has approved abolishment of moratorium on the execution of death penalty in terrorism-related cases."

President Mamnoon Hussain rejected petitions for clemency from eight convicted terrorists after the death penalty was reinstated and ordered executions be carried out, Dawn news reported.

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