Supreme Court keeps death sentence for murder after a marriage refusal
Three Supreme Court judges dismissed Muhammad Kamran's review, ruling that refusing a marriage proposal cannot lessen punishment for murder.
On 13 October the Supreme Court dismissed Muhammad Kamran's review and maintained his death sentence for the murder of Maimoona Shaheen.
The prosecution's account, recorded in the judgment, is that he shot her at her home after she and her family rejected his marriage proposal.
The court called such a killing a grave offence and said her refusal is not provocation and cannot reduce the punishment.
Arrested on 5 September 2012, he has served about 14 years; the court said relief under the life-expectancy principle needs at least 25 years, among other conditions.
The judgment said a woman's consent to marriage cannot be set aside for honour, tradition, ego or emotion, and cited Islam and Pakistan's CEDAW commitment.