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Nigerian Senate has approved the death sentence as a penalty for drug traffickers in the country, as the 2024 NDLEA Act (Amendment) Bill passes through the third reading. According to Channels TV, the proposal was adopted on Thursday when the Senate dissolved into a committee of the whole for a clause-by-clause consideration of a report […]
Continue ReadingThe lower house in Malaysia, on Monday, approved legal reforms to abolish the mandatory death penalty for some offences. The amendments which include murder and drug trafficking while 11 of them carry it as a mandatory punishment would be applicable to 34 offences currently punishable by death. Malaysia has had a moratorium on executions since […]
Continue ReadingEquatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most authoritarian countries, has abolished the death penalty, state television announced on Monday citing a new law signed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Capital punishment was “totally abolished” in the oil-rich central African nation after the president signed a new penal code, shared on Twitter by the vice […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man was sentenced to death by the High Court in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, November 30, after he was found guilty of trafficking more than 700g of drugs into the country in May 2017. Judge Datuk Azman Abdullah sent Sidrey Shalod Dike, 46, to the gallows after finding that the defence had failed […]
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