Algeria Introduces Death Penalty For Arsonists After Deadly Wildfires
ALGERIA has adopted a law imposing the death penalty on people convicted of arson of forests or fields after a series of deadly.
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Special Court Sentences Four To Death For Kidnapping In Edo
JUSTICE Aigbona Momodu of the Edo State Special Criminal Court has sentenced four persons to death for their involvement in the kidnapping of.
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Sudan’s Paramilitary RSF Chief Hamdan Dagalo Sentenced To Death Over War Crime
A SUDANESE court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes.
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How Two Men Were Sentenced To Death Over Abduction Of NYSC Official In Ekiti
AN Ekiti State High Court has sentenced two men to death by hanging for the kidnapping of an official of the National Youth.
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Court Sentences Foreign National, Two Others To Death By Hanging Over Terrorism, Arms Trafficking
A HIGH Court sitting in Sokoto State has sentenced three men, including a foreign national, to death by hanging after finding them guilty.
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12 Years After, Court Sentences Nyanya Bombing Convict To Death, Jails Other Suspects
THE Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a 37-year-old man, Zakaria Garba, to death by hanging for his involvement in the 2014.
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Court Sentences Woman To Death For Aiding Terrorism In Katsina
A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Katsina has sentenced a woman, Hauwa’u Mukhtar, to death by hanging after finding her guilty of terrorism-related.
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Court Sentences Four Suspects To Death Over Owo Church Attack
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced four members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group to death by hanging for their.
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Man Sentenced To Death For Murder Of Toddlers At Ugandan Nursery
A MAN has been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of four toddlers at a nursery school in Uganda’s capital, Kampala,.
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Somali Woman Executed For Murdering A Child In A Case That Sparked Outrage
THE authorities in Puntland, a semi‑autonomous region of Somalia, have executed a woman convicted of murdering a 14‑year‑old girl, in a rare case.
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Appeal Court Upholds Death Sentence For Five Offa Bank Robbery Convicts
THE Court of Appeal in Ilorin, Kwara State, has upheld the death sentences imposed on five men convicted over the 2018 Offa bank.
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Jigawa Court Sentences Man To Death By Hanging For Defiling 15-Year-Old Girl
A JIGAWA State High Court has sentenced a rapist, Abubakar Muhd, popularly known as Akuya, to death by hanging and ordered him to.
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Court Of Appeal Upholds Death Sentence For Hanifa Abubakar’s Killer
THE Court of Appeal sitting in Kano has affirmed the death sentence handed down to Abdulmalik Tanko, the convicted killer of five-year-old Hanifa.
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Bangladesh Tribunal Sentences Fugitive Ex-PM, Sheikh Hasina To Death
A SPECIAL tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death after a months-long trial that found her guilty of.
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Humanity Or Hesitation? Why Some Governors Won’t Sign Death Warrants
A SIGNIFICANT number of convicts on death row in Niger and Kogi States remain alive due to ongoing appeals, fear of judicial errors,.
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Killer Of Kwara Final-Year Student Sentenced To Death By Hanging
THE Kwara State High court Ilorin has sentenced Abdulrahman Bello to death by hanging for killing Hafsoh Lawal, a final year student of.
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Court Sentences Ex-Guard, Cook To Death For Murder Of Ex-Katsina Commissioner
A KATSINA State High Court has sentenced two men to death for their involvement in the brutal murder of former Katsina State Commissioner.
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Court Sentences Man To Death For Beheading Corps Member In Nasarawa
THE High Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced Oluwatimileyin Ajayi to death by hanging for the gruesome murder of a National Youth.
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Kano Mosque Arsonist Sentenced To Death By Hanging
AN upper Shariah court in Kano has sentenced Shafiu Abubakar to death by hanging for setting ablaze worshippers at a mosque in Gadan.
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Court Sentences Two To Death By Hanging For Attempted Murder In Ogun
AN Abeokuta High Court in Ogun state on Thursday sentenced two men to death by hanging, and one other to 21 years in.