A leader at the human rights group called the proposal “a dangerous and dramatic step backwards and a product of ongoing ...

Following the government’s announcement that a comprehensive study on the total abolition of the death penalty will begin in ...

In response to the passing of the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli Penal Law making it mandatory ...

The death penalty is deeply embedded within sociological and sociolegal structures of power that shape its justification, ...

Amnesty International has urged the Federal and State Governments to abolish death penalty. Mrs Barbara Magaji,the Programmes Manager of Amnesty Internationa, made the call during a stakeholders ...

Amnesty International says it has no confidence that the trial of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina and ex–home minister Asaduzzaman ...

While Israel now considers executing convicted terrorists by lethal injection, it bears repeating why the nearly 4,200 ...

The United Nations said yesterday that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s sentencing for crimes against humanity marked ...

Israel’s parliament approves the first reading of a controversial bill introducing the death penalty for terrorism, drawing ...

MP calls for ‘legally binding referendum’ as new poll shows more Britons support bringing back capital punishment than oppose ...

Malaysia must stay on an irrevocable path towards the total abolition of this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment’ - Nicole Fong ...

Responding to today’s decision by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal to sentence former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...