Original sentence: He was deposed in a military coup by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq on July 5 1977, after his reign saw widespread civil disorder.He was hanged in 1979 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan upheld the death sentence.He was sentenced to death in 1978 by the provincial High Court for the authorization of the murder of a political opponent.He was the son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, an influential Sindhi landlord and the Dewan (minister) of Junagadh state
Edited sentence: Deposed in a coup by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, he was sentenced to death in 1978 by a provincial high court, functioning under martial law, on charges of authorizing the murder of a political opponent after a highly controversial trial that was partly held in camera.He was the first populary elected leader of what is now Pakistan and arguably its most popular leader since Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who founded Pakistan in 1947.Most accounts now treat this as the judicial murder, by a military dictator, of the most popular civilan leader of Pakistan's history.The death sentence was challenged in the Supreme Court, which upheld it in a split 4-3 vote.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto an influential Sindhi landlord and the Dewan (minister) of Junagadh state