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

After 15 years on the death row, a Chadian prisoner was released due to the efforts of the National Human

Iranian authorities reportedly executed at least five prisoners.

A man was sentenced to death by a local court in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh for killing his wife and

An Egyptian court sentenced two local men to death on charges of involvement in militant attacks in Libya and planning assaults in Egypt, legal sources said.

Two prisoners have been executed at Salmas Prison (west Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran) on drug related charges.

A 45-year-old man charged with strangling and then raping his 14-year-old neighbour was sentenced to death.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tracie Todd re-sentenced Marcus Benn to life without the possibility of parole.

Zimbabwe last week pardoned 10 inmates who were on the death row after they requested for Presidential clemency while the remaining 80 will also survive the gallows if Government resolves to completely abolish capital punishment for all crimes, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.