NPR: Pakistan’s Top Court Releases Man Accused Of Killing ‘Wall Street Journal’ Reporter
Journalist Daniel Pearl’s beheaded body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2002. The murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was overturned last year.
The court also allowed three other Pakistanis who were serving life sentences in connection with Pearl’s kidnapping and death to go free as well.