Nigeria has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for mutiny, assault, cowardice and refusing to fight Islamic extremists. The court-martial charges all were connected to the soldiers refusal to deploy to recapture three towns seized by Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram in August. The lawyer for the condemned men said they were convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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