Tag: death penalty

"After keeping these five journalists behind bars for years and delaying their trials, Ethiopian authorities are now trying to blackmail ...

"Allowing the two terror commanders to walk away with life sentences will not serve the cause of justice for the ...

AGF Lateef Fagbemi argued at a Senate public hearing that capital punishment could create safe havens for terrorism suspects abroad, ...

The Anti-Terrorism amendment bill passed its first reading just a day after lawmakers resolved to classify kidnapping as terrorism.

Nigeria’s Anti-Terrorism Act prescribes a death penalty for kidnapping when the offence results in the death of a victim. Where ...

Norway participates in the World Congress against the Death Penalty, which takes place every three years.

The number of people on death row continues to grow because the Nigerian criminal justice system seems to view the ...

The calls on Nigeria to abolish the death penalty were made on Tuesday at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of ...

The Kano State government had already delayed its response to Mr Sharif-Aminu’s appeal for close to 11 months, but, on ...

"Security challenges would be significantly solved if the government gives traditional rulers constitutional power."

Despite the progress recorded against the death penalty, more work needs to be done by the abolitionist movement in sub-Saharan ...

“I believe by the time anyone caught in the act faces death penalty other people will learn and stop.

The lawmaker has proposed a bill in the Senate.

William Endley served as an advisor to rebel leader Riek Machar.

Hours earlier, Mr. Khamenei accused Iran’s foes of fomenting the unrest.

The police have given details of how the woman killed her husband.

The state government said death penalty would be applicable to cases where lives were lost.

Scepticism has grown in Iran over the effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring drug smuggling.

“People who indulge in such deserve to be publicly executed to serve as deterrent to others.”

“AI should refocus attention on defending the rights of the traumatised family members of victims of violent crimes.”

Only kidnappers whose victims die in custody will face the death penalty.

Thailand last carried out the death penalty in August 2009.

Kidnappers will be jailed for life if their captors survive.

Chijioke Obioha was hanged for drug trafficking in Changi Prison early Friday morning.

In 2013 Nigeria carried out four executions, the first since 2006