Death sentence

Dobo Inmates Hopeful

However, in Madang’s Beon Prison, there are two detainees who have the Death Sentence upon their heads. Initially, there were four of them, but two escaped during a breakout.

The Dobo detainees are a group of 123 men from different villages in the Nahorawa LLG, who rampaged Sakiko Village in 2018, and brutally murdered 7 people, assumed of practicing sorcery. Two of those victims were children aged 3 and 5 at that time.

Saudis sentence five to death for journalist's murder

Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was killed inside the kingdom's consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul by a team of Saudi agents.

The Saudi authorities said it was the result of a "rogue operation" and put 11 unnamed individuals on trial.

A UN expert said the trial represented "the antithesis of justice".

"Bottom line: the hit-men are guilty, sentenced to death. The masterminds not only walk free. They have barely been touched by the investigation and the trial," Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard wrote on Twitter.

     

Pakistan ex-leader sentenced to death for treason

Such a verdict is a first in a country with a history of army rule. The military reacted angrily, saying legal process "seems to have been ignored".

The general seized power in a 1999 coup and was president from 2001 to 2008.

The penalty is unlikely to be carried out. Gen Musharraf was allowed to leave Pakistan in 2016 and is in Dubai.

The high treason charge has been pending since 2013. It relates to Gen Musharraf's suspension of the constitution in 2007, when he declared an emergency in a move intended to extend his tenure.

Turkish women sentenced to death in Iraq for IS links

Some reports say 16 women were handed the death penalty, while others say one was jailed for life.

The women confessed to marrying IS fighters or providing the group "with logistical aid or helping them carry out terrorist attacks", the judge said.

Thousands of foreigners have fought and died for IS in Iraq and Syria.

The Iraqi government declared its war against the group over in December. While IS has been driven from its major strongholds, militants have continued to carry out suicide bombings and other attacks.

Father and son free from death sentence

From West Coast Namatanai, the Former Konoagil local level government president Selman Emos and son, Misialis were on death row when they appealed against the sentence.

A five-man Supreme Court bench upheld their appeal, setting aside the conviction and acquitted them from the murder charges they stood trial over.

Chairman of the bench, Justice Les Gavara-Nanu ordered for the discharge of the pair once they are transferred back to Kerevat. The decision on appeal were handed down in Waigani.

Death sentences upheld against men who fatally gang raped woman in India

  The crime sparked widespread protests and drew international attention to violence against women.

Applause broke out in court on Friday among relatives of the victim — whose identity is protected by law — as judges explained the crime met the "rarest of the rare" standard required to justify capital punishment in India.

"It's a barbaric crime and it has shaken the society's conscience," Justice R Banumathi said, as a three-judge Supreme Court panel threw out an appeal on behalf of the defendants.

National Court sentence man to death by hanging

The National Court today sentenced Keith Lasi-Aira of Ihu village to death by hanging after he viciously attacked and chopped three men and a woman to death with a bush knife in the early hours of June 24, 2013.

Deputy Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika when handing down the sentence described the incident as one of the worst homicide and brutal murder he has seen in the country.   

The cold blooded murder of the four was a merciless act that saw Aira kill the owner of Poomo Enterprise in Koki, along with the wife and two other men.

Spared death in 2008, man loses appeal in child rape case

Patrick Kennedy was spared from execution in 2008 but remained convicted in the 1998 rape of an 8-year-old. He is serving a life sentence.

In 2013, a federal judge in New Orleans agreed with defense lawyers who said there had been gender discrimination in the selection of grand jury leaders at the time Kennedy was indicted.

But the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed in a decision released Wednesday evening.

Prosecutors urge jurors to sentence theater shooter to death

Prosecutors said they proved several of the required "aggravating factors" in these murders beyond a reasonable doubt: That Holmes harmed an outsized number of victims when he opened fire at the midnight Batman movie premiere; that he killed a child, and that the attack was particularly heinous.

They said Holmes wanted to murder as many as he could in the audience of more than 400 people but failed to kill more than 12 because his assault rifle jammed.