In the United States, a Ghanaian member of ISIS has been sentenced to life in prison.
Alexander Kotey, a British-born terrorist of Ghanaian heritage, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Virginia, United States of America.
On Friday, April 29, 2022, Alexander Kotey was sentenced by Thomas Selby Ellis, a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia.
The 38-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of western hostages by the Islamic State in Syria.
He was a member of the IS Beatles, a brutal British ISIS cell nicknamed that by their victims because of their accent.
The gang, which included ringleader Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, El Shafee Elsheikh, and Alexander Kotey, was responsible for the murders of a number of people, including a police officer.
In September 2021, the convict pleaded guilty to multiple charges, ensuring that he would spend the rest of his life behind bars.
According to reports, British and American families read statements describing their shattered lives during the sentencing on Friday, April 29, 2022.
Alexander Kotey sat quietly, listening to parents and siblings describe their terror before and after the deaths of their loved ones, whom he was directly responsible for.
He showed no emotion as he was sentenced to eight life sentences for his crime, according to news.sky.com.
He exhibited no emotion when he was sentenced to eight life terms for his crime, according to news.sky.com.
In 2012 and 2013, he acknowledged to being actively engaged in the imprisonment and kidnapping of four Americans who had come to Syria as journalists or to give humanitarian relief and died in Islamic State hands, as well as torturing prisoners with waterboarding and electric shocks with a stun pistol.
Meanwhile, Mohammed Emwazi, the group's head, was killed in a drone strike in 2015.