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...
Category : Capital punishment
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...
