Honour Killers get death
LAHORE : A court in pakistan yesterday sentenced four men to death for the murder of a pregnant woman bludgeoned to death in the centre of the country's second-largest city for marrying against her family's wishes' lawyers said.
A mob of more than two dozen attackers, among them numerous relatives including the victim's father and brother,battered Farzana Parveen to death with bricks outside the Hight Court in the eastern city of lahore in May.
So-called honour killing are commonplace in pakistan but the brutal and brazen nature of Parveen's killing meant the case made headlines around the world.
The court today awarded death sentences to four accused- the father,brother,cousin and ex-hunband of the victim for murder and terrorism prosecutor Rai Asif Mehmood.
Mr Mehmood said the sentence were handed down for there counts- murder, terrorism and the killing of an unborn baby.
The fifth accused in the case, a cousin of Parveen, was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment, Mr Mehmood said.
Thoungh Pakistan has the death penalty for several crimes, there has been defacto moratorium on civilian executions since 2008.
Defence lawyear Mansoor Rehman Afridi said his clients would appeal against the sentences.AFP