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Germany’s Top Criminal Court on Wednesday confirmed a seven-year sentence imposed on a sadist, who entered into a pact to hang a mentally ill woman with her consent. The 57-year-old man made contact online with the woman, who is from…

Botswana has hanged a man for murdering his girlfriend and her son, the first execution in two years by the only southern African nation not to have abolished the death penalty. Joseph Tselayarona, 28, was executed on Saturday after the…

An Ado Ekiti High Court on Tuesday sentenced a 47-year-old man, Blessing Olumakinde, to death for killing his father, Benson Egunlae, over the man’s estate. The State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, who handed the verdict, said…

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife has sentenced a couple – Fatai Jimoh and Lateefat Jimoh – to death by hanging for armed robbery and the murder of one Mrs. Bukola Taiwo of Ikeketu, Ile-Ife. Taiwo was said to have gone on a…

On Thursday, an Osun state high court sentenced Kayode Idowu, a 35-year-old artisan, to death by hanging for robbery and murder. Idowu and his accomplice, Femi Adebowale, had been arraigned before the court by the police on three counts of…

Iraq said on Sunday it had hanged 36 militants sentenced to death over the mass killing of hundreds of mainly Shi'ite soldiers at a camp north of Baghdad two years ago. It is the highest number of militants executed in one day by the…

Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano High Court has sentenced the killer of a Kano business tycoon, philanthropist, and Yoruba leader, Ganiyu Akanbi Bello, to death by hanging. The Accused, Abubakar Abdulrahaman, 28, was found guilty of culpable…

An Indian man on Sunday hanged himself after stabbing 14 members of his family to death over property dispute, The Hindu reports. The incident occurred in in the city of Thane, Maharashtra in Konkan Division. The suspect was identified as…

A 22-year-old man, Julius Aboy was yesterday sentenced to death for stealing N955, 600 by a Delta State High Court sitting in Warri. The trial judge, Justice Marshal Mukoro of High Court 1, who handed down the sentence told the convict…