Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over reports of more than 170 individuals being transferred to Angenga ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to halt the planned execution of 170 ...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law abolishing the death penalty with immediate effect. The abolition ...

In a statement, the organization urged Zimbabwe to go further by removing the state of emergency clause.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa — who has not signed death warrants for those facing capital sentences since he came ...

Amnesty international on Wednesday appealed to DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi to halt the executions of scores of people sentenced to death for belonging to criminal gangs.

Amnesty International on Tuesday described the law as “a beacon of hope for the abolitionist movement in the region." Other African countries such as Kenya, Liberia and Ghana have recently taken ...

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

Zimbabwe has announced that it has abolished death penalty in its statues nearly 20 years after it carried out its last ...