DEATH SENTENCE

A State High Court, Ontisha, Anambra State, has sentenced two men to death for killing a sex worker. The two men – Valentine Umezinwa and Emeka Okolonji- killed the woman identified as Blessing Eze. The judge, D.A. Onyefulu, said the…

Jigawa State Government has enacted the child protection law that prescribes the death penalty for rapists without the option of life imprisonment. Dr. Musa Adamu, the Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General, disclosed this on…

A 26-year-old man has been put to death in Saudi Arabia for taking part in anti-government protests as a teenager. Mustafa al-Darwish was executed on Tuesday following the discovery of an “offensive” photograph that showed him in…

Lisa Montgomery, the only female inmate on federal death row in the United States has been executed for murder. Montgomery was the first woman to be executed by US federal government since 1953, BBC reports. She was also the 11th…

Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the death sentence imposed on a woman, Maryam Sanda for killing her husband, Bilyamin Mohammed Bello. Bello, nephew of Haliru Mohammed, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic…

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has asked President Buhari not to grant the request of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for him to intervene in the death sentence passed on five Christian youth in Adamawa state. The five…