A Papua New Guinean court has sentenced a man to death...

A Papua New Guinean court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of two teenage boys - the fifth person to face the death penalty in the South Pacific nation in the past 12 years.
A National Court judge sentenced Port Moresby resident Arua Maraga Hariki, 35, for killing the youths in April 2001, a court official told Reuters.
The court heard Hariki strangled Heni Veidiho, 18, and Mathew Togiri, 17, after a heavy session of drinking beer and whisky in his village one night. There was no apparent motive for the attack.
Hariki was expected to appeal. He is the fifth convicted killer to be sentenced to death since the death penalty was reinstated by parliament in 1991 in response to rising violent crime in the former Australian colony, which won independence in 1975.
None of these executions have been carried out, with most of the sentences overturned on appeal. The last hanging in Papua New Guinea was in 1957.
Crime is rife in resource-rich but impoverished Papua New Guinea where criminal gangs roam freely in the capital, residents live behind razor wire and tribal warfare is common.