Foreign minister ‘strongly condemns’ China’s executions of four Canadians
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Category : Capital punishment
Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to ‘go to hell’
On Truth Social, president-elect also lashes out at Chinese troops in Panama Canal and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Donald Trump has told 37 people on...
Burkina Faso wants to reinstate death penalty, government source says
Military regime considering move after capital punishment abolished in west African country in 2018 Burkina Faso’s military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after...
Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name
Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict In the early hours of 30 June 1966...
Ghana abolishes death penalty, with expected reprieve for 176 condemned prisoners
Country joins growing list of African nations free of capital punishment, but execution remains for high treason Ghana has become the 29th country in Africa...
Equatorial Guinea abolishes death penalty, state television reports
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signs new penal code for central African country Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most authoritarian countries, has abolished the...
Japan hangs three men on death row in first executions since 2019 – reports
Japan has resisted calls for abolition of the capital punishment, and the latest executions are the first under the new prime minister, Fumio Kishida Japan...
