Bro I am not liberal.. but I am in favor of capital punishment to those who disrespect Prophet (PBUH). But this law should be applicable on Muslims as well who also abuse others' religion in Pakistan.
This particular case, if you read the remarks of judges during proceedings, was so weak.. The eye witness accounts didn't corroborate with each other..
And if you look how it started.. the shameless Muslim women first asked Asia to bring water from the well, and when that lady was bringing that she felt thirst and drank from that water.. and those Muslim women who couldn't move their behinds to get the water for themselves started disrespecting her and her religion because she drank from the water which ironically she was bringing to help those Muslim women?!
And she said that she didn't disrespect the prophet (PBUH). it was the eye witnesses who couldn't agree on one account of events themselves.. one said that there were 50 people in the panchayat where she accepted her crime, the other said there were 2500 people in that panchayat..
When judges asked the person (a molvi of a local masjid) who registered FIR, whether he was present when she committed the crime, or even when she confessed.. he responded no he wasn't there.. he was told by someone that this had happened.. so he registered the FIR.. when court asked the name of the person who told him about this incident.. he said I don't remember the person..
Can you, being a Muslim yourself, give punishment in this case?