Tag: Death penalty

The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill for the prohibition of violence against persons. Hon. ...

Nigerian man named Ilechukwu Uchechukwu Chukwudi has escaped death penalty after Singapore's Court of Appeal reversed its own decision on ...

Days after shooting and killing of a black man identified as Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a fast-food ...

Human Rights Commission in Saudi Arabia has announced that the kingdom is ending the death penalty for crimes committed by ...

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has assented to the Bill which prescribed death penalty for anyone found indulging in kidnapping ...

It is no longer news that Maryam Sanda was sentenced to death by hanging for allegedly killing her husband, Bilyaminu ...

Maryam Sanda has approached the court of appeal, Abuja division and requested the court to set aside the verdict of ...

A Court in Pakistan has overturned the death sentence handed down to former president Pervez Musharraf by declaring the legal ...

The former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on Monday said that he will only give his support to the much-criticised ...

The United Nations deputy secretary-general Amina J. Muhammed Tuesday said the UN does not support death sentence as a penalty ...

Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, who  sponsored  the hate speech bill said the aspect that proposes death penalty for defaulters of the ...

Respite may be coming the way of farmers in Oyo State as a law which prescribes death for any herdsman ...

The Taraba House of Assembly on Tuesday amended the state Kidnapping and Abduction Prohibition Act 2010, to introduce death penalty ...