Tag: Death Penalty

A leading member of the Movement for Change (MfC), Richard Sumah has recommended capital punishment for illegal mining offenders, urging the government to put all who are found guilty of ...

International efforts to abolish the death penalty took center stage at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, February 25 as UN human rights chief Volker Türk condemned a sharp rise ...

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced 26 individuals to death for their involvement in armed groups, including the infamous M23 rebel faction.  This ...

Member of parliament for Madina, Francis Xavier Sosu, has petitioned President Akufo-Addo to commute all persons on death sentence to life imprisonment. According to him, the appeal follows initiation, passage ...

Singapore has hanged Mohamed Shalleh Adul Latiff, a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin. It was the country's third execution in just over a week. Mohamed Shalleh was ...

Nana Obiri Boahen, a former deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has opposed the legislature's decision to remove the death sentence from the constitution, warning that it ...

Countries have adopted all sorts of methods in punishing offenders. Death Penalty has been one of those, that is pronounced on law offenders, whose crimes demands death sentence. Several Human ...

Singapore's top court on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, has been urged to show "mercy" as it heard the last-ditch appeal of a Malaysian man facing execution despite criticism from supporters ...

A man who was dressed as ‘The Joker’, told police he wanted to be executed when they arrested him for attempted murder after he injured 17 people in a knife ...

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, ...