Pakistan's top court orders release of man accused in Daniel Pearl's killing

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — 
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
The court Thursday also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh’s acquittal by Pearl’s family.
Sheikh has been on death row since his conviction in the death of Pearl in 2002. Sheikh “should not have spent one day in jail,” his attorney said.
Attorney Mehmood A. Sheikh, no relation, said the court also ordered three other Pakistanis, who had been sentenced to life in prison for their part in Pearl’s kidnapping and death, freed.

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