
EGYPT: TWO REFEREED TO MUFTI FOR DEATH PENALTY OVER HELWAN CHURCH ATTACK
18 April 2019
The Cairo Criminal Court referred two defendants on 16 April 2019 to the Grand Mufti seeking his opinion on a preliminary death sentence for them over their alleged participation in the Helwan Church attack in December 2017.
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In a vote death-penalty opponents praised as “historic,” a veto-proof supermajority of the New Hampshire legislature on 11 April 2019 gave final approval to a bill that would repeal the state’s death penalty statute.
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