A Pakistani man sentenced to be strangled, chopped...

A Pakistani man sentenced to be strangled, chopped into 100 pieces and dissolved in acid for the murders of dozens of children was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide, prison authorities said.
They said the bodies of Javed Iqbal and his 14-year-old accomplice Sabir, who was convicted with him, had been sent to a hospital for a post-mortem examination.
"They have committed suicide by taking some poisonous substance," a jail official said in Lahore.
In March 2000 a Lahore judge sentenced both Iqbal and Sabir to be strangled, cut into pieces and thrown into acid - the same fate that befell their 100 child victims.
The verdict provoked outrage from lawyers who said the judge had gone beyond Pakistani law which prescribes death penalty executions by hanging. The apparent suicides came just four days after the country's highest Islamic Court had agreed to hear their appeal against the death sentence.