Bucknell professor gets death sentence from Ethiopia

by E Wayne Ross on December 23, 2009

Philadelphia Inquirer: Bucknell professor gets death sentence from Ethiopia

A Bucknell University professor was sentenced yesterday to death in absentia by an Ethiopian court that convicted him of plotting to assassinate government officials.

Berhanu Nega, of Lewisburg, an associate professor of economics at the Union County school, was one of five people to receive death sentences for planning the attack in 2005 when nearly 200 people were killed in postelection violence.