death penalty

Families of Libyan children infected with HIV have dropped demands for six foreign medical workers convicted in the case to be sentenced to death.

They will hand the decision to Libya's High Judicial Council, which is due to make the final ruling on the matter.
Relatives of 438 children have accepted compensation worth $1m per child.
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been convicted of deliberately starting a HIV epidemic in the 1990s. They say they are innocent.
Libya's Supreme Court last week upheld their 2004 death sentences, placing the medics fate with the High Judicial Council.
The council, a semi-political body, is due to meet later on Tuesday. It has the power to commute sentences or issue pardons.