61. By decree of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, kidnapping carries a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty, carried out by public execution, Interfax said. 62. Chechen authorities have carried out several public executions of convicted criminals, and some have been shown on television. 63. Courts routinely order lashings and hand amputations for theft and other crimes, and public executions for murder, rape and drug trafficking. 64. Convicted murderers and adulterers face public executions while thieves have their hands and often their feet amputated. 65. Courts may hand down sentences of amputation for thieves and public execution for murderers, rapists, sodomites and drug traffickers. 66. Courts routinely order hands amputated for theft and public execution for murder, rape, sodomy and drug trafficking. 67. Courts routinely order hands amputated for theft, and public execution for murder, rape, sodomy and drug trafficking. 68. Courts routinely order lashings and hand amputations for theft and minor crimes, and public executions for murder, rape and drug trafficking. 69. Courts may hand down sentences of amputation for robbery and public execution for murder, rape, sodomy and drug trafficking. 70. Death sentences in Nigeria are usually carried out in public executions in which convicts are either shot or hanged. |