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An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at an Islamist sit-in, a judicial official said.
A Nigerian man on Friday received the death sentence for the serial murders of nine women in hotel rooms in the country’s oil hub in what appeared to be ritual killings.
An Egyptian court upheld a death sentence for one Coptic monk and life in prison for another over the killing of the abbot of a desert monastery in 2018, a judicial source said.
Egypt has executed eight men sentenced to death over deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State group on churches and a police checkpoint, judicial and medical sources said Tuesday.
A court in Pakistan has overturned the death sentence handed down to former president Pervez Musharraf by declaring the legal process unconstitutional.
An inmate who is on death sentence after killing four people believes he should be given a second chance in the society.
A serial killer dubbed the “Underwear Robber” for stealing his victims’ clothes and forcing them to walk naked was yesterday handed a death as well as a life sentence for killing three people and robbing them of their cellphones and money.
A teacher in Tanzania has been sentenced to death for beating a pupil so badly that he died of his injuries.
Kenya’s High Court has sentenced a senior policeman to death for the murder of a detainee – one of two cases resulting in rare officer convictions.
Government wants to abolish the death penalty with plans already afoot to push for debate on Constitutional amendments to end death by hanging in line with international trends to do away with capital punishment, a Cabinet Minister has said.