Saman Abbas was 18 years old and had a clear idea of how she wanted to live. She didn’t want to marry an older man in Pakistan. She had reported her parents for abuse. She wanted to choose whom to love, how to dress, and how to live. To her family, those choices were an affront that had to be punished. According to prosecutors, on the night of April 30 into May 1, 2021, in Novellara, in northern Italy, she was killed in a carefully planned crime. It wasn’t a moment of rage; it was a punishment prepared in advance. Now, the Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court, has rejected all appeals and upheld the convictions. Her father, Shabbar Abbas, and her mother, Nazia Shaheen, were sentenced to life in prison. So were two of Saman’s cousins, Ijaz Ikram and Noman Ul Haq. Her uncle, Danish Hasnain, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. All for saying no to a marriage she hadn’t chosen.