Nigeria’s first lady, Aisha Buhari, has supported the call for the execution of Kano schoolteacher, Abdulmalik Tanko, who killed a 5-year-old pupil of his school. Abdulmalik Tanko, the proprietor of Noble Kids...
North Korea is reportedly taking extreme measures to punish people who distribute or watch Netflix’s hit show ‘Squid Game’. According to Radio Free Asia, the country has sentenced a man...
Abdulsalam Adinoyi, a member of the notorious terrorist group, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a high court in Ekiti state. Adinoyi was arraigned on a five-count charge...
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio on Friday, October 8, signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, becoming the latest African state to ban capital punishment. The move comes after...
Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has asked governors to sign the death warrant of 3,008 inmates on death row at custodial facilities across the country. Speaking while inaugurating the...
The US government under Joe Biden has ordered a halt on federal executions that were resumed in 2020 under the Trump administration after a 17-year hiatus. The Trump administration carried...
A father was publicly executed in Yemen after being found guilty of murdering his three daughters. Ali Abdullah al-Noami, 40, left his three daughters Rahaf, 7, Raghad, 12, and Malak, 14, to drown...
Nigerians are still reeling from the news that a Kano Upper Shari’a Court has handed a death sentence to a 22-year-old singer for blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad. Back in March,...
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has said that as much as he hates the death penalty, no punishment meted on a...
A Rivers State High Court has sentenced 21-year-old Ifeanyi Maxwell Dike, to death by hanging, for raping, killing, and dismembering an eight-year-old girl named, Chikamso Victory Nmezurumba, in August 2017....
Saudi Arabia is ending the death penalty for crimes committed by minors, the kingdom’s Human Rights Commission has announced. In a statement published on Sunday, president of the state-backed commission...
India has executed the four men who were convicted of the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012. The men, Akshay...
Kim Kardashian is mourning the death of an Alabama death row inmate who was executed despite last-minute attempts to save his life. Nathaniel Woods was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death...
Justice Ahmad Tijjani Badamasi of a Kano state high court, today Friday, February 21, sentenced a housewife, Rashida Saidu, to death by hanging for pushing her husband, Dr Adamu Ali,...
An international drug-trafficking ring leader who was nicknamed “Crocodile of the Persian Gulf”, has been executed by the Iranian government alongside his accomplice. Hormozgan province chief prosecutor, Ali Salehi told news agency...
The execution date for four men convicted of fatally gang-raping a female student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 has been set. The men, Akshay Kumar Singh, 31, Pawan...
Ondo state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has condemned the proposed capital punishment clause in the hate speech bill that’s currently before the National Assembly. The governor criticised the bill while delivering an...
A Moroccan court has sentenced to death two Dutch citizens over the accidental killing of a medical student in 2017. Two years ago Edwin Gabriel Robles Martinez and Shardyone Girigorio...
Global human rights group, Amnesty International has launched an eight-point human rights agenda, asking the Federal and State Governments to urgently implement recommendations from previous reports about human rights violations...
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