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An Egyptian court called on Sunday for a legal amendment to allow the live broadcast of the execution of the killer of a female student, as a deterrent to frequent homicides. In a highly publicised two-day trial, Mohamed Adel was found guilty last month of the “premeditated murder” of fellow university student Naira Ashraf, who had rejected his advances, after he confessed to the crime in court. The criminal court which sentenced Adel in Mansoura, 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of Cairo, called on the legislature to amend the law governing capital punishment, in order to allow the execution t…