The United States should suspend aid to Pakistan if the four men convicted of Daniel Pearl’s murder are released.

Pearl was an American Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 while researching a terrorism story in Pakistan. A video of Pearl’s brutal decapitation at the hands of al Qaeda’s 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was then sent to U.S. authorities. Pearl was then quite literally chopped into pieces and dumped in a shallow grave.