With prospects the death penalty may finally be abolished, human rights defenders say the situation presents an opportunity ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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

Boluarte also said she was considering reimposing the death penalty. “To these bloody murderers I say that I am seriously thinking about the death penalty, because no hitman, no extortionist ...