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, ...

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 ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Team, Gendron's attorneys argue "The government's decision to seek the death penalty against Payton Gendron is arbitrary." ...