Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 19, 2006
Pakistan

PAKISTAN. PHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM

the Peshawar High Court, Pakistan...

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the Peshawar High Court, Pakistan, accepted the appeal of Attaur Rahman against the decision of a lower court and commuted his death sentence into life imprisonment. He had been sentenced to death for murdering a man over a ‘petty dispute’ regarding a volleyball match.
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  • (Sources: Pakistan Press International Information Services, 19/10/2006)