Death Penalty

Abuja, Nigeria – In a significant legislative push to combat Nigeria's escalating kidnapping crisis, the Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed for...

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners this year, according to an AFP tally, indicating a sharp increase that...

Saudi Arabia has executed 213 people so far in 2024, more than it has in any other calendar year on record, as...

Alabama on Thursday executed convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who held his breath in vain as officials asphyxiated him with nitrogen...

The Maldivian government has announced its plans to implement the death penalty, a move that has triggered immediate debate and...

Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an...

Glynn Simmons is US’s longest-serving inmate to be declared innocent of crime

A Makurdi High Court Judge, Justice T.A. Kume, sentenced five men to death by hanging for culpable homicide on Wednesday....

As the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked around the world today, two human rights groups,  Human...

Family members of prisoners on Singapore’s death row are calling on the government to bring an immediate moratorium on executions...