Entries tagged with “Kuwait”
Apr 15, 2026
New Harm Reduction International Report: Drug-Related Executions Worldwide Reached Record High in 2025 Amid Intensification of “War on Drugs” Rhetoric
2025 marked the highest number of drug-related executions worldwide since Harm Reduction International (HRI) began reporting numbers in 2007. In its new report, The Death Penalty for Drug Offenses: Global Overview 2025, HRI explains that a “small but resolute group of countries” are responsible for a record 1,212 executions, which is likely an undercount due to secrecy laws in the high application nations of China, North Korea, and Vietnam preventing disclosure of death penalty-related…
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Aug 02, 2023
Worldwide Wednesday’s International Roundup: Bangladesh, China, Ghana, Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore
On July 25, 2023, Ghana’s parliament voted to abolish the death penalty. Although the death penalty would remain in the constitution for acts of treason, the new law would remove the death penalty as possible punishment for murder, genocide, piracy, and smuggling. The current 176 death row prisoners, including six women, would have their sentences commuted to life in prison. Last year seven people were sentenced to death despite Ghana not having carried out an execution since 1993. The…