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Pelted with stones, bricks, pieces of iron and shot multiple times by bystanders, Thomas was hanged around midnight, crying out for his mother.

Pakistan has hanged around 180 convicts since restarting executions in December after Taliban militants massacred more than 150 people at a school, most of them children.

The 76-year-old's great grandfather was found hanged around the turn of the 20th Century after surviving persecution in Poland but being "driven to despair" by anti-Semitism in England.

It were advantageous for him that a great millstone were hanged around his neck, and he cast in the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ix.