
In what can be termed as a watershed moment in the fight against death penalty in India, the Law Commission in its ...

Zambia, like most countries in Africa, has retained the death sentence on its criminal law statutes for a limited ...

The week before last, the Pakistani Supreme Court admitted Asia bibi’s appeal against her conviction and death ...

India is a country of ironies. Barely a fortnight ago, we had a consultation on the death penalty organised by the ...

Last month the United States Supreme Court ruled in Glossip v. Gross 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015) that the use of ...

Some people say the common law is all about narrative. A story gets told, then retold and retold and with each ...

On 29 June 2015, in Glossip v. Gross 576 U. S. ____ (2015), Justice Alito gave the majority opinion (joined by ...

On 16th and 17th June, 2015, a group of experts met in Geneva to address the issue of foreign nationals, including ...

Over the last two days the media and human rights groups around the world have expressed repulsion and anger over ...

On Friday 23rd January, 2015, the US Supreme Court granted three Oklahoma death row inmates certiorari to ...

2014 was an interesting year for protection of fundamental rights by the Indian Supreme Court. We undertook an ...

Recent weeks have seen the resumption of executions in Jordan, after an 8-year de facto moratorium, and in ...