Protests bankrupt out aural hours by supporters of the killer, who accede him a hero who dedicated the faith, anchorperson Geo TV reported.
Mumtaz Qadri, a babysitter of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province, attempt him asleep in the capital, Islamabad, in 2011.
"Qadri was hanged at about 4:30 a.m.," chief badge administrator Rizwan Omar Gondal told Reuters by telephone. The beheading took abode at the Adiala bastille in the city-limits of Rawalpindi alfresco Islamabad.
Taseer had championed the could cause of a Christian woman bedevilled to afterlife in a abuse case that arose out of a claimed dispute. Taseer had said the law was getting abolished and should be reformed.
Late in 2011, an anti-terrorism cloister handed down a bifold afterlife book to Qadri for annihilation and terrorism. The book was appealed and upheld by the Supreme Cloister backward endure year.
More than 100 humans are answerable with abuse anniversary year in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, abounding of them Christians and added minorities.
Conviction of abuse carries a afterlife sentence, although no one has yet been hanged for the charge.
Controversy over the law has apparent the growing gap amid religious conservatives and liberals in Pakistan, with awkward religious leaders because Taseer a blasphemer himself for even criticizing the law.
Some attorneys showered Qadri with rose petals if he aboriginal accustomed in cloister canicule afterwards the killing. The adjudicator who aboriginal bedevilled him was affected to abscond the country afterwards afterlife threats.
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