Hands Off Cain
PAKISTAN·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 19, 2006·1 MIN READ

PAKISTAN. PHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM

the Peshawar High Court, Pakistan...

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)