Tag: death sentence
Liberian sentenced to death for spying
An Algerian court has sentenced a Liberian to death “for spying for Israel,” the Algeria Press Service reported on Tuesday.…
Failed coup: 28 Turkish soldiers sentenced to life over foiled coup in 2016
A total of 28 soldiers were handed life sentences on Tuesday in three separate cases related to a failed military…
Governor seeks divine courage to sign convicted-kidnappers death sentence
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that he constantly seeks courage and conviction from God to sign the…
Court affirms robber’s death sentence
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed death sentence passed on Daniel Kekong for armed robbery.
Bauchi approves death sentence for kidnapping
Kidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable by death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed Abdullahi signed into law a…
Abeokuta High Court sentences man to death by hanging
A High Court in Abeokuta on Monday sentenced Kola Akanji, to death by hanging for armed robbery. Akanji, whose address…
House of Assembly approves death sentence for kidnappers
The Lagos State House of Assembly has on monday November, 28 approved death sentence for kidnappers, whose victims died in…
73-year-old woman sentenced to death over drugs
A Vietnamese court has sentenced an elderly Australian woman to death for heroin trafficking, local media reported on Thursday. The…
You must die, Supreme Court tells convict
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the death sentence passed on Ayiere GodsGift by the Court of Appeal in Calabar…
Cameroon sentences 89 Boko Haram fighters to death
boko Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death, local media report. They were…
BREAKING: Supreme Court confirms Rev King death sentence
The Supreme Court has confirmed the verdict of the lower courts by confirming the death sentence of Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo,…
Reverend King to die by hanging, Supreme Court dismisses appeal
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja There is no reprieve for Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King over his death sentence for murder. The…
Supreme Court sentences Nonso Okeke to death
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the judgment of a Lagos High Court sentencing a man, Nonso Okeke to death…
Death Sentence: Supreme Court to decide Rev King’s fate
The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday fixed February 26, 2016 for judgment in the appeal filed by the…
Lawyer wants death sentence for corrupt persons
A Rivers-based lawyer, Mr Abdulkareem Dauda, has said that an amendment to the law governing corruption to impose death penalty…
Gaddafi’s Son, 8 Ex-Officials Sentenced To Death
A Libyan court on Tuesday sentenced to death Saif’ al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late dictator, Moamer Gaddafi, and eight former…
Egyptian court confirms Morsi’s death sentence
The Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence for deposed president Mohammed Morsi for orchestrating a prison escape…
US ‘deeply concerned’ over Morsi death sentence
The US is “deeply concerned” about an Egyptian court decision to seek the death penalty for former President Mohamed Morsi,…
US jury sentences Boston bomber Tsarnaev to death
Washington (AFP) – US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation’s top law enforcement official, on Friday welcomed a jury’s decision…
Drug Trafficking: Nigerian Female Student Faces Execution
A 30-year-old Nigerian female student in Malaysia, Mary George Unazi, has been sentenced to death by a Malaysian High Court…
11 to die in Egypt over football riot
An Egyptian court Sunday sentenced 11 people to death after a retrial over a 2012 football stadium riot in the…
Egypt court confirms death sentence for Brotherhood chief, 11 others
An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 11 other defendants on Saturday, and jailed…
Primate To Jonathan: Don’t Kill Soldiers Sentenced To Death
President Goodluck Jonathan has been called upon not to approve the death sentence passed on 54 soldiers found guilty of…
China man wants $2.4mn for wrongful death sentence
A Chinese man who was freed after six years on death row following a wrongful murder conviction is seeking $2.4…
Mutiny: Falana Condemns Death Sentence Passed On 54 Soldiers
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) has condemned the sentencing of 54 soldiers to death. The soldiers were on…
2 Sentenced To Death For Stealing Fowls
These indeed are interesting times. For stealing fowls belonging to a police officer, two men have been sentenced to death…
54 soldiers sentenced to death by firing squad
Fifty-four Nigerian soldiers were sentenced to death by firing squad on Wednesday by a Military Court-Martial sitting in Abuja. A…
Death Sentence On 12 Soldiers: Falana Petitions Army
By Simon Ateba Lagos lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Barrister Femi Falana, has contested the death sentence passed on…
Lawyers disagree on ‘Death Sentence’ on mutinous soldiers
By Akin Kuponiyi&Henry Ojelu The death sentence passed on 12 soldiers by a military tribunal over their alleged in mutiny…
12 Nigerian soldiers sentenced to death for mutiny
Twelve Nigerian soldiers were on Tuesday sentenced to death for mutiny after shots were fired at their commanding officer in…