NIGERIA: TEENAGER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
September 12, 2009: in Nigeria, Chief Justice Bemari Bansi of the Yola High Court sentenced Patrick Ozeoma to hang for a murder committed when he as a minor. He allegedly hacked his former master, Late Pericoma Mbasalem, to death using a machete in 2000, when he was sixteen years. Ozeoma confessed that he killed Mbasalem because he took N52,000.00Â sent to Ozeomaâs by his mother. (Sources: Vanguard, 12/09/09)
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