The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. December 19, 2014 Pakistan Kills 67 Militants, Revives Death Penalty After School Massacre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pakistani jets and ground forces have killed 67 accused militants in a northwestern area near Peshawar, where the Taliban killed 148 people, most of them children, in a school attack this week. Pakistan has also revived the death penalty for terrorism-related cases following the massacre, ending a six-year moratorium. Thousands of convicted terrorists now face execution, some of them within days.