The Zambian government has pardoned 390 death-row inmates and commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment after President Hakainde Hichilema abolished the death penalty in the...
The government of Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signing a new law to the effect on Monday. The...
An Egyptian criminal court in Giza, Cairo, on Tuesday, sentenced a senior judge, Ayman Hagag, to death for the murder of his TV presenter wife, Shaima...
A New Jersey teacher who was sentenced to death in Egypt for his pro-democracy activism was given a new lease on life this week. Ahmed Abdelbasit...
Pope Francis has declared the death penalty wrong in all cases, a definitive change in church teaching that is likely to challenge Catholic politicians, judges and...