Legal

By Enyichukwu Enemanna US President-elect, Donald Trump, will be sentenced on January 10 in a hush money case ahead of his January 20 inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, but a jail term...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Saudi Arabia carried out at least 338 executions in 2024, a dramatic rise from 170 in 2023 and the highest figure recorded in decades, according to AFP’s tally. Amnesty International, which has been...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna The transitional legislative assembly in Burkina Faso has passed a bill granting amnesty to soldiers involved in the September 2015 failed coup. The amnesty covers only events that took place on 15 and...

Zimbabwe has taken a historic step by abolishing the death penalty, ending a practice that has not been enforced for nearly two decades. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who personally experienced a death sentence during the 1960s independence...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Segun Olowookere, who was sentenced to death for stealing chicken in Nigeria's South-West state of Osun, has been granted a pardon, state Governor Ademola Adeleke announced in the exercise of his Prerogative of...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna US President-elect Donald Trump has criticised outgoing President Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of nearly all federal prisoners on death row, describing the decision as senseless. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death...