By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-This rejoinder is issued in direct response to the collective opposition expressed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Nigerian Bar Association, the National Human Rights Commission, and Professor Uchenna Emelonye against the proposed prescription of the death penalty for aggravated kidnapping. I reject their positions…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An American basketball player for the Indonesian league was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle illegal drugs to the country, police said Thursday. The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad. Jarred Dwayne Shaw, 34, from Dallas, Texas, was arrested May…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the death penalty for severe crimes. According to reports, Trump signed nearly 200 executive actions, memoranda, and proclamations on his first day in office, undoing many policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden. The executive order, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawyer for Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum has told the BBC as the country marks a year since the coup that he fears the former head of state could face the death penalty. Last month Niger’s top court stripped Mr Bazoum of his immunity from prosecution, paving the way for him…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan faces the death penalty in a trial that began Tuesday over alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and Vietnam’s largest financial fraud case on record. The 66-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat allegedly used…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Every day, on average, 14 Christians are violently killed in Nigeria. Persecution of religious minorities in the country is severe. The case of Sufi Muslim Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, pending before the Supreme Court of Nigeria, challenges the blasphemy law of Kano state, Nigeria, under which he was sentenced to death by…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reacting to news that Ghana’s Parliament voted to remove the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act and the 1962 Armed Forces Act, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director Samira Daoud said: “Today’s parliamentary vote is a major step by Ghana towards the abolition of the death penalty….
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Florida lawmakers have approved legislation backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that would permit the death penalty for those convicted of sexually abusing children. The bipartisan proposal — which passed by a vote of 34-5 late Tuesday — will also allow juries to hand down death sentences by votes of at least 8-4,…