Pakistan Court Upholds Death Sentence in Blasphemy Killing

Pakistan’s highest court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of killing a provincial governor for criticizing the country’s controversial blasphemy law.     The case dates to 2011 when a Christian woman was accused of insulting Islam and given the death sentence.  The governor of Pakistan’s populous Punjab province at the time, Salman Taseer, sought a presidential pardon for the woman, Asia Bibi.  He also called for reform of the controversial...

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