LIBERIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

Nyonoh Diah was sentenced to death after a 12-man jury unanimously convicted him of murder. The jury of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court in Zwedru,  brought a unanimous guilty verdict against Diah, a former rebel of the disbanded Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), for murdering Amos Kouyor. Speaking from his prison at the Zwedru Police Station the following day, Nyonoh told reporters that he killed Amos, in Tuwloh Town, Konobo District, in June 2003 when his AK-47 rifle "mistakenly fired".
Three witnesses narrated how a disagreement erupted between Nyonoh and the late Amos over the deceased's refusal to take orders from Nyonoh. Nyonoh, they said, demanded that he either obey or be shot. Handing down his ruling, Judge Bailey stated "The court's final judgment is that defendant is guilty of the crime of murder and is sentenced to death by hanging on the gallows by the Director of the Bureau of Correction under a warrant of the President of the Republic of Liberia."