criminal law

  1. K

    lenient law of honor killing stemmed from British Penal code of 1860

    This part of the history of honor killings you’re unlikely to read or hear about. In 1947 in the British colony of Nigeria, English judges had to overturn what they viewed as the backward ruling of a local Shariah court. A man had been sentenced to death for murder, but the British superior...


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