A South Korea district court imposed a rare death sentence on a 53-year-old man on 23 June 2022 after he was found guilty of killing a woman for money in December last year, and then also murdering an accomplice.

A couple sentenced to death in Malaysia three years ago for trafficking about 5kg of ganja were spared the gallows on 22 June 2022.

An Edo State High Court on 20 June 2022 sentenced a maid, Dominion Okoro, to death by hanging for killing Madam Maria Igbinedion, the mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion.

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The lives of nearly 1,350 death-row inmates are hanging in the balance in the prisons of Malaysia.

A new study, commissioned by The Death Penalty Project, London, in partnership with the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Nairobi, has revealed that...

Akinleye Seyi a.k.a. Erin has been sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery by an Ekiti State high court, Lailasnews reported on 16 June 2022.