LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Friday dismissed appeal of a condemned prisoner and upheld his death penalty awarded for killing his two cousins in Faisalabad.

An anti-terrorism court on Dec 22, 2011, had awarded death sentence to Muhammad Usman on two counts with a fine of Rs200,000. He was also sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts.

The prosecution said the convict had burnt his cousins -- Rabia, 4, and Muhammad Sharif, 3 -- to death following a domestic issue. The police arrested Usman and tried him under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2015

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