Outgoing governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has commuted the sentence of four death row inmates to life imprisonment.

Two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Qorveh (Iranian Kurdistan province) in the early morning.

Voters in three states approved pro-death penalty ballot questions on Novembre 8, while in a fourth, voters

A man convicted of two murders was hanged at the Fukuoka Detention House in Kyushu, the Justice Ministry announced.

Umberto Veronesi, a scientist who in his life has always fought for both the abolition of the death penalty and of the life sentence, died today at the age of 90.

A chairman of a Chinese logistics company was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in relation to

Two prisoners have been hanged in two different Iranian cities, reported the state run Iranian media.

In Nebraska, at 1 p.m. Italian time, it is definitive the count on Referendum No. 426, which proposed to

After a series of meetings in Kenya and Zambia, the mission of Hands Off Cain in Africa in view of the resolution for a moratorium on executions at the United Nations General Assembly is successfully continuing in Malawi.

Official Iranian media, including ISNA, have reported on a blinding punishment sentence carried out on November 8 in one of the prisons near Tehran.

An Osun State High Court presided by Justice Kudrat Akano sentenced an octogenarian Mr Oluwafemi

Portugal’s foreign minister said that Equatorial Guinea must abolish the death penalty immediately or its