DeWine Calls For Death Penalty Abolition In Ohio

June 16, 2026

Republican Governor, Mike DeWine has urged that Ohio should abolish the death penalty. At a news conference, DeWine asserted that death penalty is no longer a deterrent to violent crime, ...

Death Row Is Inhumane, Says Amnesty Ghana Director

by Silas Kafui Assem

May 15, 2025

The Country Director of Amnesty International Ghana, Genevieve Partington, has described the continued existence of the death penalty in Ghana as a cruel and outdated practice that stands in stark ...

U.N. High Commissioner For Human Rights Shocked By Death Sentences In Myanmar

by Comfort Ampomaa

December 2, 2022

UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk on Friday, December 2, 2022 expressed shock that more than 130 people have now been sentenced to death by military courts behind closed-doors in ...

Death Penalty: Deeply Rooted in Racism, Colonialism and Oppression – Richard Branson

by Maynard Champion

October 29, 2021

Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, continues to advocate the need to abolish the practice of killing people found guilty of taking the lives of others. According to him, ...