Death Penalty

The new president, a human rights lawyer, has the opportunity to abolish the death penalty

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…

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