Sends prisoners who received commutations to “Alcatraz of the Rockies”
Melika Dastiyab, Elham Zeinali, Taybeh Rezaei, Parisa Taghibi, Zahra Mahmoudpour, Fatemeh Tabibi, Niloufar Masoudi
Mikaeil Bahari, Kamran Ghiasvand, Foroud Sagvand, Mardan Saeedi
A High Court of Cross River State sitting in Calabar has sentenced a 33-year-old man, Okon Effiong, to death for armed robbery, rape and aggravated assault, The Guardian reported on January 21, 2026.
Lebanon is facing a critical debate over the death penalty, as 84 prisoners remain under sentences frozen for decades.
