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Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin
AN Ilorin Magistrate’s Court has ordered the remand of a suspected Boko Haram member, Sidiku Gado, in the Federal Correctional Service Centre in Kwara State.
Gado, who was brought before the court on Thursday, was charged with an attempt to commit an offence, theft and terrorism contrary to section 95 of Penal code law and section 2(3) (I) of terrorism act 2011.
Gado was reportedly arrested for attempting to steal a Honda Accord car with the Registration No. LAGOS FST – 310-FY belonging to one Azeez Amidu.
He was said to have entered the complainant’s vehicle with an attempt to steal before being apprehended and brought to Yashikira Divisional Police Station.
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How the Trump Administration Is on a Killing Spree
The trump administration carried out its ninth execution of the year and the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years.
The case of Brandon Bernard was a rare execution of someone who was in his teens when his crime was committed. Bernard, 40, was one of five gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd Bagley who were youth ministers in 1999. The gunman, Christopher Vialva, was executed in September, while the other co-defendants were given lesser sentences according to CNN.
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NC CHIEF JUSTICE BEASLEY LEAVES LEGACY TO EMULATE: Beasley became the first African American woman to be chief justice in March 2019. She’d served on the state’s highest court since 2012. On March 13th of this year, 13 months after Gov. Roy Cooper named her chief justice, Beasley issued her first directives to deal with the pandemic. Clerks of court were to make sure notices were posted that people who might have been exposed to COVID-19 not enter the courthouse. Routine Superior and District court proceedings were suspended unless they could be conducted remotely, were to deal with an emergency or due process. She also gave the senior judges in judicial districts discretion to make decisions on proceedings – giving critical consideration to protecting the health and safety of all those involved. There’s little glamour in making sure a job gets done – no matter how challenging the circumstances. But it is the mark of compete
th man to be executed by the U.S. government.
Alfred Bourgeois, 56, was sentenced to death in 2004 for sexually abusing and killing his 2-year-old daughter in Texas. He was executed at the Federal Correctional Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Friday, two days after the government executed
Brandon Bernard.
Bourgeois’ lawyers has argued he deserved mercy due to his low IQ.
In his final statement on Friday, Bourgeois insisted on innocence, CNN reported. “I ask God to forgive all those who plotted and schemed against me, and planted false evidence,” he said. “I did not commit this crime.”
The depravity and evil of this admin’s race to murder as many people on death row as possible is shocking & inhumane.