Death Penalty

Saudi Arabia has executed at least 198 people so far in 2024, the highest number of executions in the country since 1990, according to Amnesty International. The official Saudi Press Agency announced on Saturday that the 198th execution of the year had been carried out, though experts say the news a

Singapore is under pressure to stay the imminent execution of an intellectually disabled man who was found guilty of drug offences. If he is not given clemency, Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a 34-year-old Malaysian who has an IQ of 69, will be put to death.

The Saudi Human Rights Commission has announced that, following a royal decree, the sentences of all people convicted of childhood crimes will be reviewed. According to a new Royal Order, all authorities must suspend the application of the death penalty for those convicted while they were minors, pe

Benjamin Bestgen discusses the death penalty in this week's jurisprudential primer. See his last one here. A few weeks ago an acquaintance (let’s call her Lea) witnessed an incident where teenagers had assaulted elderly people by deliberately coughing and spitting on them and yelling “CO

A drug trafficker has been sentenced to death in Singapore in a remote court hearing held using Zoom. Malaysian national Punithan Genasan, 37, was convicted on Friday of complicity in heroin trafficking in 2011.

A court in Thailand has upheld two death sentences which the UK’s National Crime Agency has admitted it helped secure. The two defendants, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, are now at risk of imminent execution. Reprieve is calling on the UK government to seek a stay of execution for the two Burmese men,

Human rights NGO Reprieve has intervened in a UK Supreme Court case arguing that the Home Secretary is putting British lives around the globe at risk by refusing to seek death penalty assurances from the US for two men currently held in Syria. Maha Elgizouli V Secretary of State for the Home Departm

Preliminary death sentences have been handed to more than 2,400 people in Egypt, including 11 children, during President Abdelfattah el-Sisi’s first five years as president, a Reprieve report has revealed. Mass Injustice: Statistical Findings on the Death Penalty in Egypt examines Egypt’