Convicted killer Shafqat Hussain was hanged by Pakistan on Tuesday despite claims that he was under 18 when arrested and was tortured into confessing to a murder.<br /><br /> His family have said he was just 14.<br /><br /> The case sparked an international outcry with Hussein’s lawyers saying school <br />records showed he was a juvenile in 2004. That is when they claim he was burnt with cigarettes and had fingernails removed until he confessed to killing a child in Karachi.<br /><br /> Despite previous stays of execution, Pakistan insisted Hussein was an adult at the time and could therefore be hanged.<br /><br /> “Shafqat Hussain was this morning executed in Pakistan, despite widespread calls, both within and outside the country, for a stay,” the legal aid group Justice Project Pakistan, which was representing Hussain, said in a statement. <br /><br /> An official at the Karachi Central Jail, where the sentence was carried out, confirmed the execution.<br /><br /> Pakistan has hanged nearly 200 people since December, when a massacre by Taliban mi
