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4G9A7798
January 04, 2023
Fighting for change, one death row inmate at a time
topic: Death Penalty
by: Samia Qaiyum
This NGO is working to make capital punishment a relic of the past in a country with the largest death row population in the world.
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December 21, 2022
Behind Iran's death penalty against protestors
topic: Death Penalty
by: Goly Razzazi
The Iranian government continues to abuse its death penalty against protesters and dissidents of the regime.
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December 16, 2022
Taliban authorities spread fear with public executions
topic: Death Penalty
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Taliban authorities have recommenced public executions to maintain social control.
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December 12, 2022
Botswana sees death penalty debate rekindled
topic: Death Penalty
by: Cyril Zenda
The impending execution of a Motswana citizen abroad is stoking outrage against the government's own relationship with the death penalty.
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1C3A0146
November 11, 2022
A lost cause?: Inside the fight to end Taiwan's death penalty
topic: Death Penalty
by: Sarah Li
Although fairly liberal, Taiwan retains capital punishment. And the public seems to be on board.
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July 31, 2022
The surge in death penalty use and the road to abolition
topic: Death Penalty
by: Gerardo Bandera
Which countries still have the death penalty and which have abolished it?
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May 17, 2022
Death penalty debate: is abolition on the horizon?
topic: Death Penalty
by: Robert Bociaga
Capital punishment continues to be a hotly debated topic around the world. All the while, activists are fighting for its abolition.
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October 23, 2021
Removing African women from the death row
topic: Death Penalty
by: Cyril Zenda
Despite progress in abolishing capital punishment in Africa, a number of nations on the continent retain it and keep women on the death row.
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October 02, 2021
Hope For Zambian Prisoners As Former Inmate Moves To State House
topic: Good Governance
by: Cyril Zenda
Zambia's president's pledge to reform the nation's prison system - notorious for its inhumane conditions - has raised hope among human rights advocates.
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March 17, 2021
20 years after Bosch’s hanging, change is slow to come in Botswana
topic: Death Penalty
by: Cyril Zenda
Onalenna Chabaya, a volunteer at a Botswana-based NGO lobbying to end capital punishment, spoke to FairPlanet about the challenges the organisation faces.
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zimbabwe_deathrow
December 15, 2020
Death Row Population Headache for Zambia
topic: Death Penalty
by: Cyril Zenda
The government says while it has always been ready for abolition, there is need for rights groups to help it in changing the attitudes of citizens.
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girl bear
September 30, 2020
Russian human rights community oppose death penalty for child abusers
topic: Death Penalty
by: Igor Serebryany
Brutal child abuse within several regions of Russia renewed the fierce discussion over whether the existing punishment for such crimes is too mild.
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zimbabwe_prison
May 15, 2020
Zimbabwe death row prisoners benefit from COVID-amnesty
topic: Death Penalty
by: Cyril Zenda
The crisis has seen convicts that include murderers, who in normal circumstances do not qualify for parole, being set free.
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death penalty botswana
December 27, 2019
Latest hanging dashes hopes for end to death penalty in Botswana
topic: Death Penalty
by: Cyril Zenda
Botswana – one of the remaining few African countries that still carries out the death penalty – announced an execution by hanging on 2 Dec.
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UK_deathpenalty
December 21, 2019
When Was The Death Penalty Abolished In The UK?
topic: Death Penalty
by: Ama Lorenz
A little history of the death penalty in the UK, and why capital punishment was abolished in 1965.
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asia bibi
October 31, 2018
A legal milestone by not bowing to religious hardliners
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Christian mother Asia Bibi was released Oct 31 from Pakistan’s death row after the nation’s Supreme Court reversed her 2010 conviction of blasphemy.
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