Death Penalty
Iran Executes ‘Child Bride’ in Murder of Husband, Rights Groups Say
Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an...
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US Judge Says Man Who Wrongfully Spent Nearly 50 Years In Prison For Murder Is Innocent
Glynn Simmons is US’s longest-serving inmate to be declared innocent of crime
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Court Sentences Five To Death By Hanging For Culpable Homicide In Benue
A Makurdi High Court Judge, Justice T.A. Kume, sentenced five men to death by hanging for culpable homicide on Wednesday....
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Group Seek Abolition of Death Penalty
As the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked around the world today, two human rights groups, Human...
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Death Penalty: Families Of The Executed Appeal To Singapore For Change
Family members of prisoners on Singapore’s death row are calling on the government to bring an immediate moratorium on executions...
Read morePastor, Brother To Die By Hanging In Akwa Ibom
An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in the Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state has sentenced a...
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Pastor Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Murder In Port Harcourt
A Rivers State High Court has sentenced the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in...
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Singapore Executes Man For Coordinating Cannabis Delivery
A Singaporean man convicted of trying to traffic around 2.2 pounds of cannabis was executed on Wednesday, a sentence lambasted...
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Governor Ganduje Pardons 12 Deathrow Inmates
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has pardoned 12 inmates on death row and commuted the death sentences of six...
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Rivers Court Sentences Two Former Sars Officers To Death For Extra Judicial Killing
Rivers Court Sentences Two Former Sars Officers To Death For Extra Judicial Killing
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