•Armed Nigerian soldiers No fewer than 16 military officers indicted for plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu are facing capital punishment ranging from life imprisonment to death penalty. This is coming after the military high command admitted that the officers who have been in detention since October 2025 were found guilty of the offe...
•Nigerian Senate Key justice and human rights stakeholders yesterday opposed a Senate proposal seeking to prescribe the death penalty for kidnapping under a proposed amendment to the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, warning that capital punishment would neither deter crime nor enhance national security. The opposition was expressed ...
•Captain Ibrahim Traore Burkina Faso’s military rulers will bring back the death penalty, which was abolished in 2018, the country’s Council of Ministers announced today. “This draft penal code reinstates the death penalty for a number of offences, including high treason, acts of terrorism, acts of espionage, among others,” stated the informat...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has passed a resolution classifying kidnapping as an act of terrorism, stipulating that an amendment to the Terrorism Act be made to impose the maximum penalty of death. The resolution was made during plenary today. Under the new law, according to the upper legislative arm, once a kidnapping conviction is establishe...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu An Israeli parliamentary committee today advanced a bill proposing the death penalty for terrorists, a move pushed for by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. The National Security Committee approved the amendment to the penal code, which will now be passed onto the parliament for its...
•German Ambassador to Nigeria, Annett Günther Human rights advocates, legal practitioners, and international partners have urged the federal government to end the death penalty, as over 3,500 inmates remain on death row. The stakeholders made the call during an event marking the 2025 International Day Against the Death Penalty in Abuja, co-org...
•Bandits and Governor Nasiru Idris Following renewed attacks by armed bandits in parts of Kebbi, the state government has announced plans to review existing laws to impose the death penalty or life imprisonment on convicted informants aiding the criminals. Governor Nasiru Idris made this known yesterday during condolence visits to Tadurga vill...
•Zainab Muhamadu A 22-year-old woman, Zainab Muhamadu, is facing a possible death sentence in Zamfara State after being charged with apostasy following her conversion from Islam to Christianity. Zainab’s ordeal began after her conversion, which reportedly followed her interaction with a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, identified si...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State Edo State governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, said kidnappers caught in the state will face the death penalty, specifically by hanging, expressing readiness to sign the death warrants of convicts. Governor Okpebholo disclosed this at the stakeholders’ session at the Uromi Town Hall, where he had an inter...
•Luigi Mangione (middle) with policemen US Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday asked federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly gunned down an American healthcare CEO in a brazen attack. “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold...
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