A court in Tunisia has sentenced nine jihadists to death for the murder of a soldier, Said Ghozlani, in November 2016.
The army corporal was found beheaded in his home in the Mount Mghila area near the border with Algeria, an area considered a jihadist enclave.
Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for the gruesome murder.
A 2015 terror law imposes death sentences mainly on those convicted of crimes related to national security, despite a moratorium on capital punishment since 1991.
Also at the weekend, the Tunisian court sentenced 15 other individuals to prison for their involvement in the murder. The sentences ranged from 32 to 44 years.
Following the ouster of autocratic president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, radical Islamist activity increased in Tunisia.
Many security forces members have since been killed in jihadist attacks.
Despite recent improvements in the security situation, Tunisian forces continue to hunt suspected jihadists in the Mount Mghila and Mount Chaami regions.
After the murder of a 29-year-old woman sparked outrage in the country in 2020, President Kais Saied called into question the moratorium on the death penalty.
The body had been found in a ditch near the highway linking the Tunis capital with the residential suburb of Marsa.
An arrest was made and a suspect confessed to strangling her and stealing her phone.
At the time, Saied said that anyone who kills a person without justification deserves death, stirring outrage from human rights groups.
