Imagine a place where subway platforms shine like operating rooms. Yet, the justice system is as old as the Middle Ages. This is Singapore, where cleanliness meets capital punishment with surprising ...

The UN advocates for the universal abolition of the death penalty. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ...

Let’s start with an uncomfortable colonial inheritance. The island nation didn’t invent capital punishment – it received this grim package deal from British rule. That hanging noose swings with ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Activists launched a fresh legal challenge Wednesday against Singapore's mandatory death penalty for certain drug crimes, as executions hit a 22-year high in the city-state.

The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...

Central Asia’s path to abolishing the death penalty was gradual but firm. In Kyrgyzstan, a moratorium on executions was introduced in 1998 and renewed every year until the 2007 referendum that ...

UN human rights office (OHCHR) has  advocated  the universal abolition of death penalty, noting that  2025 saw an ‘alarming’ ...

“Ruto proposesdeath penalty for drug traffickers.” Is this what the President meant when hetalked of being “half-way to Singapore” this year?Singapore is one ofseveral Asian countries sentencing ...