12 February 2015 :
A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to death by firing squad for the murder of his mother in law.Said Abdi Jama beheaded Khadra Hashi Hassan using a crude weapon on 4 January 2015.
Justice Aden Jama Saleban, the chief magistrate of Sanaag regional court, read the guilty verdict in front of a packed court, reciting verse of the Holy Quran Suratul Baqarah: Verses 178 – 179 and section 434 of cap 24 of the capital punishment law.
(Sources: somalilandpress.com, 11/02/2015)