PARIS, France -- Iran on Saturday carried out its first public execution in over two years, an NGO said, denouncing the practice as "medieval" as concern grows over rising repression in the Islamic republic. Iman Sabzikar, who had been convicted over the murder of a police officer in February 2022...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore hanged a drug trafficker on Friday, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency. The spate of hangings -- which included the widely criticised execution of a mentally disabled man in...
Politicians and law enforcers who became drug lords should be meted the death penalty as first offenders as they had taken their oaths of office to follow and respect Philippine laws. Senator Robinhood Padilla emphasized this view after coming out in the open supporting the bill of Senator Ronald...
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said he is confident that the country’s judiciary has sufficient safeguards to ensure it can make an accurate determination of guilt in trials that would the require death penalty. Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa (Senate PRIB) Dela Rosa, who has been...
If given the chance, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa said he will ask President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to certify the bill seeking the imposition of the death penalty for high-level drug traffickers as urgent. Senator Ronald "Bato" de la Rosa “Given the chance, I will do it. Kung...
Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa has renewed his push for the imposition of the death penalty on convicted high-level drug traffickers in the 19th Congress. The death penalty bill is among the first 20 bills that dela Rosa filed early this week at the Senate. Last June, Dela Rosa, who was at the...
Anti-death penalty advocates were called on by a Catholic bishop to “exert more efforts” to change the views of pro-death penalty Filipinos. (Photo courtesy of Pixabay) Bishop Joel Baylon, the head of the Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care, lamented that many Filipinos still see the...
NEW YORK, United States -- An African-American teen executed in 1931 for the murder of a white woman was exonerated by a Pennsylvania court this week, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister. Alexander McClay Williams, age 16, was convicted by a white jury in just four hours, and...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia's government said Friday it has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty, with campaigners welcoming the move but cautioning the country had failed to deliver on previous vows to improve rights. The death penalty remains mandatory for several offences in the...
LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine -- Pro-Russian rebels sentenced to death two British fighters and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine, as a Ukrainian governor called for Western arms on Thursday to win the battle for a crucial eastern city. The death sentences come as Moscow concentrates...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go is willing to refile in the 19th Congress a measure reinstating the death penalty for certain heinous crimes in the country. Go, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, introduced Senate Bill (SB) 207, which seeks to reinstate capital punishment for illegal drugs...
DAVAO CITY – Senator Christopher Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go said he will still push for the enactment of a law that calls for the re-imposition of the death penalty in the coming Congress under the new administration. Go said in an interview at Davao Oriental Provincial Medical Center in Mati City on...
