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Human Rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu, has expressed his displeasure with the death sentence handed six coup plotters.The six individuals accused of being part...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has assented to the death penalty removal bill into law.The president assented to the bills on Wednesday, August 2, 2023.The...

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Sarpong, has expressed reservations about the repeal of the death penalty law.In his...

Former New Juaben New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman, Kwadwo Agyemang-Boateng, has stated it is his wish that President Nana Akufo-Addo will not assent to...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Jirapa, Cletus Seidu Dapilah, has expressed his displeasure in Parliament for officially repealing the death penalty from Ghana’s statutes.The...

Proponent of the bill seeking to repeal the death penalty, Francis-Xavier Sosu, says the death penalty is mostly weaponised for political vindictiveness, thus, its...

The Member of Parliament for the Madina constituency, Francis-Xavier Sosu, has disclosed that the Criminal Offences Amendment Act, which seeks to replace the death...

Scrapping the death penalty in Ghana will embolden criminals to commit more heinous crimes, the Member of Parliament for Zibilla East Constituency in the...

A Kenyan court has sentenced to death a former Kenyan policeman for the killing of a prominent human rights lawyer and two other people...

An American couple living in Uganda accused of torturing their 10-year-old foster child could face the death penalty if convicted of their latest charge, prosecutors said.Nicholas...

The Criminal and Other Offences (Amendment) Act 1960 Act 29 and Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 1962 Act 105, commonly referred to as the Death...

The Criminal and Other Offences (Amendment) Act 1960 Act 29 and Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 1962 Act 105, commonly referred to as the Death...

Konadu (not real name) was a farmer who owned a cocoa farm. She met her husband, Jojo (not his real name) and along the...

A 38-year-old death row prisoner, Shabnam Ali, facing execution in India has appealed for mercy and a review of her case in a last-ditch...

The Bangladeshi government has approved an amendment that would allow for the death penalty in rape cases, as anger grows in the South Asian...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called for a non-partisan debate on the proposed abolishment of the death penalty as his government prepares to...

Uganda plans to enact a law that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in unnatural sex...

US President Donald Trump has called for drug traffickers to face the death penalty as part of his plan to combat the US painkiller-addiction...

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has made a case for the return of death sentence onto the law books. Mugabe cited the increasing rate of murder...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency, Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu has petitioned President Akufo-Addo to commute the sentences of 181 persons currently on death...

The Accra Human Rights Forum International (AHRFI) has commended Parliament for abolishing the death penalty from Ghana’s penal code.In a statement released on Wednesday,...

The death penalty has officially been repealed from Ghana’s statute books after parliament approved an amendment to the Criminal and Other Offences Act.The amendment...

Chief Justice nominee, Gertrude Torkornoo, has called for a review of capital punishment in the country’s constitution.Speaking in Parliament during her vetting on Friday,...

The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is working on removing the death penalty sentence from the 1992 constitution of Ghana.CHRAJ intends...

Malawi’s parliament has started public enquiries in the capital, Lilongwe, on a proposal to abolish the death penalty following last month’s adoption of a...

Amnesty International (Ghana) has called on the State to abolish the death penalty in Ghana following the grave human rights violation it poses to...

George Floyd's fiancee and family have appealed for calm and said he wouldn't want people to get hurt after a night of violence saw...

A man accused of posting blasphemous content to Facebook has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan.Taimoor Raza was convicted after allegedly...

Thirty-seven people - including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian national - have been sentenced to death over an attempt to...

The Births and Deaths Registry recorded 663,223 births between January and December, 2023, Mr Adam Zig-Naa Abudulai, Public Relations Officer (PRO), Births and Deaths...

The former General Secretary of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Nana Yaa Jantuah has said the country needs to review its death penalty sentence.According...

Mohamed Salah saved Egypt from an embarrassing defeat in their opening Africa Cup of Nations game on Sunday as he converted a penalty seven...

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said the fans banned by the club for "vile chanting" following the death of Sir Bobby Charlton "don't represent...

An Accra High Court has sentenced to death a 33-year-old man for throwing his two-year-old son into the sea at Akuma Village, Accra, as...

In parts one and two of this story, we chronicled how The Fourth Estate uncovered an unlicensed midwife whose 30-year history of practice has...

State prosecutors are left with no other choice but to consider starting a fresh trial for Gregory Afoko.For Capital Offences including murder, the...

Despite vastly different healthcare systems, low-income patients across six different countries have mortality rates 10 to 20 per cent greater than their high-income peers,...

Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday approved some of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws, making some crimes punishable by death and imposing up to 20 years in...