Author: stephenjkeim

A Nigerian Court imposed the death penalty by Zoom after a trial of just a few hours. Nigeria should remover capital punishment from its books:

Very interesting article by Joel Freedman on things he learned from corresponding from people on death row: https://www.mpnnow.com/news/20200429/guest-essayjoel-freedman-capital-punishment-death-row-correspondence-during-covid-19

The Saudi government has announced reforms in the area of the death penalty and capital punishment: https://news.yahoo.com/activists-cautious-saudi-floggings-death-penalty-reforms-165550308.html. The reform are said to abolish capital punishment

Read the annual report of London based anti-death penalty group, the Death Penalty Project: https://www.deathpenaltyproject.org/knowledge/dpp-annual-report-2019/

Read these amazing stories of life on death row and beyond: https://www.deathpenaltyproject.org/our-stories/

Generally, executions around the world have further dropped in number but some countries, including Saudi Arabia, buck this favourable trend: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/04/death-penalty-2019-saudi-arabia-executed-record-number-of-people-last-year-amid-decline-in-global-executions/

Death Penalty Project’s pioneer, Saul Lehrfreund, speaks inspirationally about how the work of DPP started and the progress made since then and the challenges still

In a split decision, a Federal Appeals Court removes injunction on Federal Executions but sends case back to lower court for further argument: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-administration-can-resume-executions-but-not-just-yet-divided-appeals-court-rules/2020/04/07/492e703c-6224-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html