UAE. AMERICAN’S DEATH PENALTY UNDER REVIEW

the Appeal Court in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, is reviewing the death sentence against an American for killing a German businessman and dumping his body in the desert. Officials told Gulf News that Shahid King Poliss, in his mid-30s, was convicted of premeditated murder and was sentenced to die last month by the Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance, while his Ethiopian partner Fawzia Nigash Yousuf, was convicted of aiding and abetting the crime, theft and having an illicit affair. She was sentenced to three years in jail followed by deportation. Officials said Poliss is currently in Sharjah central jail. Poliss brutally murdered Martin Herbert Steiner, a 48 year old German businessman, in June last year. He had been reported missing and his decomposed body was found 15 days later by police, stuffed in a suitcase and dumped off the Dubai-Hatta road.