Death sentence for Nigeria mutineers

Following the drastic increase in the price of electricity and cooking gas, stakeholders are concerned that the situation will hasten the disappearance of forests in the country.

A judge at a mass trial in Egypt recommends the death penalty for 683 people - including the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie.

Egypt sentences to death the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 13 others, state media say.

PM David Cameron urges the Sudanese government to lift the "barbaric" death sentence given to a woman accused of leaving Islam and marrying a Christian man.

A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her religious faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer tells the BBC.

Death row inmate appeals against conviction, sentence
Daily News
A MURDER convict, Paulo Mbogo, has gone back to the Court of Appeal to challenge the confirmation of death penalty imposed on him by the High Court at Morogoro for killing a taxi driver, Cosmas Martin, in a robbery escapade. In the new move, Mbogo ...

Lover's murderer loses appeal against death sentence
Daily News
THE Court of Appeal has dmsed an application by a Tabora resident, Samwel David, challenging a death sentence for murdering h lover on grounds of infidelity and HIV infection. Justices Edward Rutakangwa, William Mandia and Kipenka Mussa ruled that ...

Ousted former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy was sentenced to death Saturday in a Cairo court. He had been convicted in a 2011 prison break.Morsy's name will be passed to the Grand Mufti, along with those of more than 100 other defendants, for the confirmation of the death sentence on June 2. The Grand Mufti is the highest legal authority in Egypt. This was the harshest sentence that Morsy could have expected to receive in the case. He will be able to appeal the sentence. The leader of the...

Tanzania's MPs Agree to Spearhead Campaign On Abolishing Death Sentence
AllAfrica.com
It appears there is now a possibility of revisiting the talk on the abolishment of death sentence in this country. Once considered unreasonable to talk on the abolishment of death sentence amidst the grisly killings of people with albinism, it now looks possible to ...