 Image copyright AFP Image caption Muhammad Iqbal, husband of murdered Farzana Parveen, with her body shortly after the attack earlier this year 
 
 A Pakistani court has given the death sentence to four people for bludgeoning to death a pregnant relative who had married without their consent. Months of tension came to a head in May when a mob led by her brother beat her to death outside the gates of the Lahore High Court. Her father, a brother and two cousins were found guilty of the killing by the court, said Abdul Samad, a senior state prosecutor, after Wednesday’s hearing. Another cousin was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of abetting the crime. Ms. Parveen enraged her family in January when she married Muhammad Iqbal, a widower from a neighboring village, instead of the cousin who had been chosen by her parents. Court officials say the defendants will have the right to appeal in Lahore's high court. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil in Islamabad says Farzana Parveen's death by stoning in broad daylight outside a court is shocking even by the standards of Pakistan, where so-called honour killings are common. But their tragic relationship later took a darker twist when it came to light that Mr. Iqbal had killed his first wife years earlier in order to be with Ms. Parveen.
– A Pakistani court has sentenced a father, brother, and two cousins to death after they used stones and bricks to murder a pregnant relative who married without the family's consent. The decision came yesterday, months after Farzana Parveen's "honor killing" outside a Lahore courthouse in May drew international attention, the New York Times reports. Another relative was handed 10 years in prison. The BBC reports the death sentences are somewhat unusual, and some suspect the sentences will be reduced on appeal. A lawyer for the men says they will indeed appeal the "politically motivated" sentences. Prosecutors, however, say the men's guilt was proven using DNA evidence.