It doesn't necessarily happen in the open, but there are several videos of gay men being beaten openly in Russia, and reports of 100 men being detained only recently for being gay where some of them were murdered. And you might have heard of Dylann Roof who murdered 9 people in a church of all places, just because they were black. Or the white person who was beaten up severely by some black teenagers for being a white Trump supporter while filming the whole thing? Or the huge amount of black people that are killed by police each year when not even posing a threat? What is reported in the OP is horrible and those countries are further behind most western countries in human rights but it's hypocritical of us to claim some kind of moral superiority when we have huge issues in our own countries as well.

They beat their kids to death meanwhile in the Murcia we shoot our kids to death.

While the punishment for apostasy is undoubtedly death, this case is extremely unjust - the punishment is only implementable in an Islamic state by the valid government after *much* due process. Vigilante "justice" is never the way to do things.

A sad story indeed.

I never understood this particular Islamic instruction. I don't understand many Islamic instructions, but this one in particular gets under my skin and makes me vomit, especially when most, if not all, Muslims living here in Europe defend it. 

Why is apostasy's punishment is "undoubtedly" death? Especially when it comes to this "beaten to death student" kind of situations.

He grew up, he grew wiser, he realised Islam isn't right for him, and that he never decided to go into Islam in the first place, so him converting out of Islam shouldn't be considered converting "out" at all. He was a young cluess soul when he was told believe in Islam and he obeyed his parents like all kids do, he grew up and made up his on mind, like all of us do in all aspects of life and choose the path we believe that are right. Not the paths others tell us about (and this isn't exclusive to religion).

So even if I was a Muslim, and even if I believed that apostasy's punishment is "undoubtedly death". I wouldn't have asked for this student to be sentenced to death, or any other apostate for that matter.

I am not stupid enough to believe that the entire Muslim population "chose" Islam. It was imposed on them, the majority of people are fine with that, but only a few of them grew wise enough to shed and reject what was imposed on them as little kids. Some drop out of college and start successful businesses and some drop out of Islam to get their heads chopped off? What kind of religion is that...  give me a fucking break. 

Is this stuff even illegal in Pakistan?

Its barely news if anything horrible happens there.

Prophet Muhammad was a pedophile rapist who murdered hundreds of innocent people.

Thank god i don't live in a muslim country.

There's no evidence that religion helps "keep people in check".  Atheists are actually highly underrepresented in prison populations, and societal health tends to be far higher in more secular societies.

As for religions teaching hate, the abrahamic ones certainly do.  I'm not that familiar with the quran, but the old testament absolutely and unambiguously advocates for the death of apostates and blasphemeers.  

Barbaric violent acts like that do not belong in a peaceful democratic nation like Pakistan.

That's not quite it, either.

The problem isn't people following a religion, or believing it to be "the only right one"; the problem is building of a person's identity around the religion.

When a person's identity is built around their religion, then any criticism of their religion becomes a personal slight in their eyes. Any suggestion of an alternative option becomes an attack on the person's identity, rather than just an opportunity for discussion about beliefs.

Education systems are then built in each country according to that country's attitude towards identity.

Extremism is the natural result of a person building their identity around something like religion (or politics, patriotism, or "race", for that matter - see the frequent examples of politically-, nationality-, and racially-motivated violence), rather than being individual. It causes groupthink and an "us vs them" mentality. And it's also why some people think that they can "catch" another religion like a disease by in any way participating in something connected to that religion (because by participating, they're going against their identity) - see the hysteria here in Australia (amongst a small section of society) over halal, for example.

It's not the fault of religion - as I noted above, there are other variants that have the same effect (even membership in a particular gang often becomes an identity - see mob families).

How the fuck can these people just... continue with their lives after something like this? Even more terrifying is the fact that these people continued to to attack his body long past death, I mean how the fuck can you harbor this kind of hate for a person over his beliefs or lack thereof, who teaches you this sort of shit and tells you it's fucking normal.