The African Court ruling on Tanzania’s mandatory death penalty ruled that sentencing someone to death by hanging violates Article 5 of the African Charte
These kinds of amendments are regressive and driven by political expediency for short-term gains
If elected, the African Transformation Movement will not play ‘sweethearts’ with criminals and would also not consider their human rights
In defiance of a judgment by the African court on human and peoples’ rights,capital punishment remains — even if death sentences are never executed
As we observe the World Day Against the Death Penalty, we must hold onto the glimmer of hope that Zimbabwean authorities will do away with capital punishment
Three countries in sub-Saharan Africa notorious for consistently executing people – Botswana, Somalia and South Sudan – were responsible for all the known judicial executions in the region in 2021
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime
Justice minister says granting parole would negate the severity ascribed to the murder by the court when the assassin was sentenced
It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
Proposed legislation imposes the death penalty for gay sex or ‘recruitment’. But love is not a crime
Our solutions to the epidemic of men murdering and raping women cannot be grounded in the same hyper-masculine violence they serve to address
Chidhumo was Zim’s most notorious felon, so why has popular culture lionised him?
The assault on the 150-year-old congregation was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history
Most of Africa is abandoning the death penalty but Botswana — an affluent, landlocked, diamond-exporting state — is among the leading exceptions
The Daily Vox asked Jo’burgers what their thoughts are on vigilantism and whether the death penalty should be brought back
Sudden surge in death sentences in Nigeria raises concern as unsafe convictions are common.
Lawsuits on the constitutionality of lethal injection have trapped Tennessee, US, inmates in perpetual limbo.
Frustration leads some people to long for the death sentence, but capital punishment would do nothing against the causes of crime.
Is the media’s reporting on events such as the Diepsloot deaths with a rush to classify the potential culprits as foreigners feeding xenophobia?
Amnesty International says it fears Zimbabwe will resume executions after prison officials were quoted saying they have found a new hangman.
Iran has executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran, says a statement on the website of the prosecutor’s office.
Rights groups urged South Sudan on Monday to put a moratorium on the country’s executions because of flaws in its legal system.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that SA may not extradite foreign nationals suspected of crimes that may lead to them to face the death penalty.
At a questioning session in Parliament, President Jacob Zuma would not commit to making public the outcome of the arms deal investigation.
At the opening of the revived Gallows Memorial at the Pretoria Central Prison, President Jacob Zuma said the death penalty would not reduce crime.
We will never know if Troy Davis was innocent, but what I know is the US authorities have executed a different man from the one convicted in 1989.
The US state of Georgia executed convicted murderer Troy Davis on Wednesday in a case that drew international attention.
As a teenager, Babul Miah was sent to prison for a murder he says he never committed but the promise of an early release turned him into a hangman.
Texas on Tuesday put to death a man convicted of a 2001 rape and murder by using a sedative that has often served to euthanise animals.
China executed on Wednesday three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency.
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/ 12 January 2011
Illinois was poised to become the first US state since 2009 to abolish the death penalty after the state senate approved the ban on Tuesday.