Tag: Death Penalty
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Reps pass bills to review death penalty, LG reforms, citizenship laws
The House of Representatives passed for second reading bills seeking to alter the Constitution to review death penalty, ensure Local Government reforms and review indigene and citizen status in the country.
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Convicts bag death sentence, jail term for the killing of 7 DSS officers
Justice Hakeem Oshodi, on Tuesday sentenced one Clement Ododomu to death by hanging and one Tiwei Monday to 16 years in a correctional centre.
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Matawalle endorses death penalty for terrorists, bandits
Zamfara state Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has endorsed death penalty for those convicted for banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling and cultism in the State. The was announced by the governor shortly after signing into law, a bill passed by the Zamfara State House of Assembly prohibiting and punishing terrorists, cattle rustling, cultism, kidnapping and other incidental…
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Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty
Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly two-decade freeze on capital punishment in the authoritarian Central Asian country, a notice on the presidential website said Saturday. The notice said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had signed off on parliamentary ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights —…
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U.S. executes first Black man since resumption of federal death penalty
The U.S. government has executed the seventh inmate and first Black man since the resumption of the federal death penalty, a media witness on the scene said. Inmate Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed Thursday afternoon for killing two youth ministers in the state of Texas in 2000. Time of death was 6:42 p.m. 10:42 p.m.…
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Buhari’s aide under fire for supporting death penalty for blasphemy
The new media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad was on Wednesday attacked by netizens over his support of death penalty as a punishment for blasphemy. The outrage was sparked in the wake of the death penalty handed out to a Kano singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu who was found guilty of committing blasphemy for a…
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Man sentenced to death for beating his father to death
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over a property in Lagos. According to reports Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in a virtual hearing. Justice Taiwo held that though the prosecution had presented…
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Death penalty: Maryam Sanda appeals against court judgment
Following her conviction by an FCT High Court over the alleged killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, Maryam Sanda has approached the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, asking the court to set aside the verdict and acquit her. Sanda, who was sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Yusuf Halilu on Jan. 27, said the…
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Why we can’t initiate death penalty bill for treasury looters – Senate
The Senate has explained why it is impossible to initiate a bill that prescribes death penalty for looters. This is coming after some Nigerians and groups called for a bill that prescribes death penalty for treasury looters instead of the lawmakers devoting time to social media and hate speech bills. The spokesperson for the Senate,…