Pakistan is a deeply conservative Muslim nation, where the punishment for blasphemy is the death sentence.
CNN: Painting prostitutes, Pakistani brushes off religious hard-liners
Lane was not eligible for the death sentence, because he was 17 when the shooting occurred.
Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami has previously said the death sentence should be considered closed.
Legal experts independent of the case weighed in after the death sentence was handed down.
Some wonder whether the death sentence was aimed at stopping her from revealing more.
Nevertheless, the death sentence was upheld on appeal and the defendant has since been executed.
But a murderer's chances of suffering arrest, trial and the death sentence are minimal.
As things stand, the commission has no weapons between admonishments and the death sentence of licence withdrawal.
Simpson's did the U.S. Most Taiwan people see Chen as a callous thug who deserves the death sentence.
"Suspend the death sentence for two years for all cases that don't require immediate execution, " read the report.
The UK government says it too welcomes the verdict but not the death sentence handed down to Saeed Sheikh.
He was the first person in the city to receive the death sentence from a federal jury since 1954.
The death sentence was confirmed on Wednesday for Ali al-Taweel, and the sentence to life imprisonment for Ali Shamlo.
And I think -- I don't have any problem saying that I think that conviction would lead to the death sentence.
Even some conservatives seemed embarrassed at the death sentence on Hashem Aghajari.
Vice President Hashemi said carrying out the death sentence against Hashim could further undermine the already stalled reconciliation efforts in post-Saddam Iraq.
He was convicted of spying and carrying out the bomb blasts, and the death sentence he received was upheld in Pakistani superior courts.
He was convicted of spying and carrying out the bomb blasts, and the death sentence he received has been upheld in Pakistani superior courts.
One of the toughest hard-line commentators, Hossein Shariatmadari, conceded that the harshness of the death sentence had played into the hands of the reformists.
But they went beyond the panel's recommendations and suggested the death sentence in rape cases where the victim dies or slips into a coma.
But he said the decision was made "notwithstanding that on our view they could face the real risk of the death sentence if convicted".
Her husband, Sulthan Nafeek, says that since the death sentence was confirmed in late October he is in no mental condition to resume his work.
The move followed media reports that the Riyadh Supreme Court had endorsed the death sentence imposed on Rizana Nafeek for killing the 4-month-old boy in 2005.
Though Iran's Supreme Court quashed the death sentence in February 2003, the case was promptly sent back for retrial by the very court that ordered the execution.
He was allowed out for the talks, and the Sierra Leonean government has indicated that it will annul the death sentence but only if the peace talks succeed.
Insulin in crude form was first produced in 1922 by Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best, lifting the death sentence that had previously been imposed on diabetics.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court also upheld the death sentence of Yakub Memon, one of the main convicts, while death sentences of 10 others were commuted to life.
The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the death sentence of one of the convicted Yakub Abdul Razak Memon and commuted the death sentence of ten others to life in prison.
Days later, an appeal court upheld the death sentence against Helmut Hofer, a German businessman arrested a year ago for having an affair with an Iranian Muslim woman.
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