12 November 2007 :

the Sharia Court of First Instance in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, sentenced an American to death for murdering a German businessman last year, Gulf News reported. The court also sentenced his accomplice, an Ethiopian woman, who took part in the high-profile murder, to three years in prison to be followed by deportation. Court sources told Gulf News that Shahid King Poliss, in his mid-30s, was sentenced to death after being convicted of premeditated murder while his Ethiopian partner Fawzia Nigash Yousuf, was convicted of aiding and abetting the crime, theft and having an illicit affair. They were accused of brutally murdering Martin Herbert Steiner, a 48-year-old German businessman in June last year. He had been reported missing and his decomposed body was found 15 days later by police, stuffed in a suitcase and dumped off the Dubai-Hatta road.