Activists and civil society organisations on Monday converged on Lagos to mark the 30th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni leaders, demanding their full exoneration ...

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Ankara to support Turkey's main opposition party, the CHP, amid a legal crackdown, ...

Court of Criminal Appeals has decided convicted murderer Tremane Wood should be executed next after all. The court set the ...

The Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) carried out multiple raids on Friday morning to capture suspects in the murder of Roberto Samcam, a former Nicaraguan military officer and exile in Costa Rica, ...

Thirty years after the 1995 murder of a Sarasota classic car dealer, his killer remains on death row with no execution date, leaving family awaiting justice.

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is seeking another stay of execution and a new trial after claiming the Anderson County Judiciary acted unconstitutionally multiple times in his case, citing new ...

At its 60th session (8 Sep­tem­ber-8 October 2025), it should extend the mandate of the Spe­cial Rap­porteur on the situ­ation of human rights in Burundi. 2025 marks ten years since the outbreak of ...

The first Trump Administration substantially reshaped the federal courts. Will the second Trump Administration be equally effective or influential on the composition of the judiciary? The jury is ...

President William Ruto’s proclamation on compensation for victims of public protests and demonstrations might have sounded, at first glance, like the greatest thing since sliced bread, at least in the ...

Tennessee can move forward with next week's scheduled execution of a condemned man with a defibrillator after the state's highest court ruled the heart device does not need to be deactivated before he ...

A local hospital where the state has been ordered to disconnect a death row inmate’s heart device before his execution now says it never agreed to perform the procedure. Byron Black, 69, is set to be ...