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Tehran's First Criminal Court has sentenced the popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy for 'insulting Prophet Muhammad,' ...

Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to ...

Amnesty International denounced Taiwan's execution of Huang Linkai on Thursday, calling the event a 'shameful setback' as it ...

The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in ...

Taiwan executed a man for a 2013 murder, marking the first execution in five years. This decision has sparked criticism from ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing ...

A prominent opposition figure in Uganda will stand trial on the serious charge of treachery, a military court ruled Tuesday, ...

On November 16, Besigye disappeared in Nairobi, Kenya, while attending a book launch of lawyer and local opposition ...

Treachery carries the death penalty for those convicted ... but he has never been convicted of a crime. Amnesty International has called for the 68-year-old’s release, saying his “abduction clearly ...