Liban Ali Yarow, Somali Military Court Chairman, sentenced Awiye Ahmed Jama’ to death for a bomb

The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Death Row USA showed a continuing decline in the

A 22-year old man of Mazabuka was sentenced to death in Zambia by the Livingstone High Court for

Seventeen Indians, who were sentenced to death in UAE in March this year, received a big reprieve ahead

Ex-Illinois governor George Ryan now is free to speak after a year of federal supervision that followed his

It ended today, the Continental Conference on the Abolition of the death penalty in Africa convened in Cotonou, the capital of Benin, by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights with the ministerial meeting chaired by Foreign Minister Bako-Arifari Nassirou.

The criminal court of Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur, sentenced 12 members of the Sudan Liberation

Thirty-seven out of 48 defendants accused of inciting violence and blocking the Qalyoub Highway last year

Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which guarantees the right to life, liberty and security of person under Article 3;

The Kaluthara and Tangalle High courts passed death penalties on 6 individuals today who were found

The Pan-African Conference on the Death Penalty went through its second day. The session began with the reports of the five thematic commissions held the previous day concerning the role of parliamentarians, civil society and media, professional groups, economic commissions and national institutions on human rights.

the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of a 26-year-old youth to life term for killing a woman