On Tuesday a Pakistani court upheld the death sentence for Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the assassin of Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab, the largest Pakistani province; Qadri confessed to the killing of Taseer citing the governor’s criticism of the country’s controversial blasphemy law as the reason; Qadri appealed the death sentence arguing that the anti-terrorism court that originally conducted his trial did not have the authority to sentence him to death; the Islamabad High Court upheld the original ruling