Bangladesh court upholds death sentences over teen burned alive
But the high court acquitted 10 on Monday, and reduced four death sentences to life imprisonment, rebuking the original court for handing out “wholesale death sentences”.
Four other defendants had their death penalties reduced to life terms by the appeals court.“The four tied Nusrat’s hands and legs, and doused her with kerosene to ensure her death,” Attorney General Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal told the court.
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