Three suspected ISIS militants have been sentenced to death by firing squad for beheading two Scandinavian hikers in Morocco last year. The men had filmed themselves beheading Norwegian Maren Ueland, 28, and 24-year-old Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, from Denmark, in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains in December. In his closing arguments in June, the prosecutor described the three as 'human beasts' and asked for death sentences. Thursday's sentencing marks the first time since 1993 that Morocco has handed out the death penalty. Jespersen's lawyers have accused authorities of having failed to monitor the activities of some of the suspects before the murders.

Source: Daily Mail July 18, 2019 15:03 UTC