ABDULLAHI Ganduje, the Governor of  Kano State said the State Government has accepted the death penalty on a Kano-based singer, Yahaya Sharif and the...

THE Muslim Lawyers’ Association (MULAN), Kano branch  says there was nothing wrong with the death penalty passed on Shariff Sharifai, a musician convicted for...

ABIKE Dabiri, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Relations and the Diaspora, has denied responsibility for the death of  Kudirat...

THE United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has condemned the death penalty and urged UN Member states to put an end to the...

THE Amnesty International (AI) has revealed that a total of 993 executions were carried out in 23 countries around the world in 2017, noting...

  Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has criticised a bill recently introduced to the floor of the Senate, which seeks to impose the death penalty on...

The injunction represents the latest legal setback in the state of Arkansas' attempt to execute the inmates - eight of whom were originally scheduled to be put to death by the end of April.

According to Amnesty International, death sentences in sub-Saharan Africa “rose from 443 in 2015 to at least 1,086 in 2016, mainly due to an increase in Nigeria which handed down more death sentences this year than any other country except China.”