SAUDI ARABIA: MURDERER EXECUTED IN JEDDAH

02 May 2016 :

Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of murder, taking to 89 the number of death sentences carried out in the Gulf kingdom this year. Saad al-Zahrani was found guilty of shooting dead a fellow Saudi in a dispute. The sentence was carried out in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

(Sources: FOCUS News Agency, 01/05/2016)

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NIGERIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN EKITI

02 April 2025

The Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on March 27, 2025 sentenced two men to death by hanging for armed robbery.

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DR CONGO: DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE AMERICANS OVER COUP ATTEMPT OVERTURNED

02 April 2025

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment.

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