It seems that either these two didn't want to die they same way as their victims... or someone else was afraid they wouldn't! (Story credited to Reuters.)
A Pakistani man sentenced to be strangled, chopped into 100 pieces and dissolved in acid for the murders of dozens of children has been found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide, prison authorities say.
They said Tuesday the bodies of Javed Iqbal and his 14-year-old accomplice Sabir, who was convicted with him, had been sent to a hospital for a post-mortem examination. "They have committed suicide by taking some poisonous substance," a jail official said in Lahore.
In March last year a Lahore judge sentenced both Iqbal and Sabir to be strangled, cut into pieces and thrown into acid -- the same fate that befell their 100 child victims. The verdict provoked outrage from lawyers who said the judge had gone beyond Pakistani law which prescribes death penalty executions by hanging.
Iqbal initially confessed to committing what were the worst serial killings in Pakistan's 54-year history, but pleaded not guilty at his trial. The apparent suicides came just four days after the country's highest Islamic Court had agreed to hear their appeal against the death sentence.
Funny how they committed "suicide" right after the court agreed to hear their appeal... hmmmm...