Lesedi Molapisi, a young Botswana national, is on the verge of being executed in Bangladesh after she was found guilty of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists ...

[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 ...