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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

[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 ...

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

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

"The implementation of the death penalty is influenced by the racial undertones of our nation's history. African American men ...