Tag: Death penalty
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Equatorial Guinea abolishes death penalty in Obiang’s tenure
Equatorial Guinea has abolished its death penalty following a new criminal code signed by President Teodoro Obiang.
The new penal code will be implemented after...
World
Death by Firing squad and electric chair executions: They are ‘torture’ – US judge rules
The judge was informed that the bullets used in executions are intended to shatter inside the heart and that the effects of the electric...
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Life is sacred, I don’t support death penalty – Yoni Kulendi tells Vetting Committee
Renowned Private Legal Practioner, Mr. Yoni Kulendi, has said he does not support the death penalty under the Criminal and other Offences Act on...
World
Nigerian man to die by hanging for phone theft
An Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced a middle-aged man, Isa Abdulkareem, to death by hanging for armed robbery.Justice Mosunmola Abodunde, while delivering the...
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Over 80-year-old on death row; Death penalty ban urgent Amnesty International
Various stakeholders within the agricultural sector have been sensitised on the engagement principles for production landscape initiatives in the Agro-commodity production in the Western...
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