This month's article is on the abolition of the death penalty in South Africa and progress towards abolition on the rest of the continent. 2025 marks 30 years since the Constitutional Court handed ...

THERE is no doubt that killings and acts of killings have become the order of the day in Nigeria. Apart from death in the hands of terrorists, the lives of Nigerians are being cut short by ritualists, ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at ... at the end of 2024 - along with 26 other countries in Africa. Key to abolition are judicial reform and discretion ...

Former Nairobi govrnor Mike Sonko has outlined a strategy for the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to help save ...

LAGOS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's drug enforcement agency called on Wednesday for life jail terms and the death penalty for those caught trading counterfeit medicines and illegal pharmaceutical ...

03/18/2025 March 18, 2025 Nigeria's drug agency (NAFDAC) is cracking down on counterfeit medicines, advocating life imprisonment and the death penalty for those involved in their trade. Recently ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...