Execution
Kansi was executed by lethal injection on November 14, 2002, at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. Kansi's body was repatriated to Pakistan; his funeral was attended by the entire civil hierarchy of Baluchistan, the local Pakistan Army Corps Commander and the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Ashraf Jahangir Qazi.
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