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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says government has not legislated any law forbidding the hanging of murder [detalii...]

Edris Nsubuga and Muhamoud Mugisha yesterday asked the nation for forgiveness shortly after the High Court assented to their pleas of guilt. The duo on Tuesday pleaded guilty of the charges against [detalii...]

A Genocide suspect who is standing trial in the United States has been found guilty of having lied to US authorities while applying for an entry [detalii...]

UN News (New York)-Mali has become the first African country to conclude an agreement to enforce sentences of imprisonment handed down by the International Criminal Court (ICC), it was announced [detalii...]

EU NAVFOR welcomes the second judgement, which was delivered Thursday 23 September, in a Kenyan prosecution in connection with the interdiction of a pirate group by an EU NAVFOR [detalii...]

[Citizen] Arusha - Many people, especially the crime victims, have expressed their opposition against sentences by the courts under the Community Services Act where convicts are made to undertake community work instead of being locked up in [detalii...]

At the age of 56, Frazer Ayee has a lot to look back on. He has been an armed robber and a kidnapper. He was involved in uprisings in Togo and Liberia. In 1988 he was sentenced to death by Ghanas defunct tribunal system, a brainchild of then dictator Jerry John [detalii...]

Nebbi district authorities have allocated 13 hectares of land for the establishment of a reception centre for convicts and suspects in the [detalii...]

Two of the four suspects arrested by the police in Embu at the weekend were among the 118 released recently from the Embu Prison [detalii...]

The UK government will finance the construction of special courts and prisons in Kenya and four other countries in the region to handle piracy suspects and [detalii...]

A court in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday convicted Abba Abacha, one of the sons of late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, to two years imprisonment for belonging to a criminal organisation in the [detalii...]

African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) - an organ of the African Union (AU) - headquartered in Banjul, The Gambia, has urged Abuja to stay the execution of more than 800 prisoners on death row across the [detalii...]

Believing that capital punishment for murder convicts could deter willful killings in the country, Bong County Rep. George Mulbah is urging President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to begin signing death sentences for convicted [detalii...]

The landlord to Thomas Nkurungira alias Tonku, who was sentenced to death for murdering his girlfriend Brenda Karamuzi in January last year, is stuck with the convicts [detalii...]

The Bauchi Chief Magist-rates Court 8, has convicted Nasiru Ishaku of Nassarawa quarters, Bauchi to 6 months imprisonment for having sex with a female [detalii...]

A Johannesburg court has convicted the countrys former national police chief, Jackie Selebi, of [detalii...]

A birds eye view on the ongoing move by the Cabinet to sugar coat serious and fundamental amendments to the Constitution by bundling three distinct issues into one bill reminds me of the story of how a crusader for humane treatment of death penalty convicts in France, acquired an infamous reputation despite his noble [detalii...]

FOG HOLD THEIR HEADS HIGH AT THE 2010 MINNEAPOLIS TOURNAMENT The San Francisco Fog played its best rugby on the last day of the 2010 Bingham Cup tournament, leaving everything on the pitch in its three contested matches, as the Fog A side reached the semi-final round in the Cup bracket, while the Fog B side advanced to the championship match in the Shield Bracket, the B side’s highest standing in the Bingham Cup tournament in the club’s history. Of special note, the Fog club collectively executed arguably its best defense in the history of the Bingham Cup tournament, as only two tries were scored against both sides throughout the three-day tournament, with the Fog A side never allowing a try in all of its matches. SHIELD BRACKET - Semi Finals SF Fog B Side 15, Atlanta Bucks 0 The Fog B side set the tone of the day for the club, playing tremendous rugby and never looking back while scoring three tries throughout the match en route to a stellar victory that placed the Fog in the championship match. CUP BRACKET - Semi Finals SF Fog A Side 0, Sydney convicts 3 The storied rivalry between the convicts and the Fog at the Bingham Cup continued in the semi-final round of the Cup bracket, as the A sides of both clubs squared off against each other for the third time in history. The match proved to be a nail-biter, as each team executed flawless rugby and in particular elevated their defensive efforts. With both teams scoreless at halftime, Sydney prevailed with a lone penalty kick in the second half to edge out the Fog in a match that could have gone either way. PLATE BRACKET - Semi Finals SF Fog B Side 0, Dublin Emerald Warriors 17 Moving to the championship pitch at the Bingham Cup, the San Francisco Fog’s B Side held their own and never made it easy for the previous tournament hosts Dublin Emerald Warriors in playing for the Bingham Shield, as Dublin forged ahead towards the end of the match as the eventual champions. The New York Gotham Knights A Side won the Cup Bracket against the Sydney convicts by a final score of 18 to 15. It was a closely fought battle with three lead changes throughout the match, and in the final seconds, Sydney missed a penalty kick that would have sent the match into overtime had it been made. Other winners of the tournament included the Los Angeles Rebellion (Bingham Plate), Sydney convicts B Side (Bingham Bowl), Dublin Emerald Warriors (Bingham Shield), Phoenix Storm (Alice Hoagland Crest) and Seattle Quake B Side (Bingham Spoon). Members from over 30 different rugby clubs from around the world (North America, Eurpoe, Australia) attended the well-executed tournament, which was fantastically hosted by the Minneapolis Mayhem Rugby Football [detalii...]

Security has been beefed up at the Nakuru GK prison following protests by death row convicts. The prisoners were protesting an attempt by the administration to confiscate mobile phones that had been smuggled into the facility. Prison authorities have denied that a number of prisoners were injured during the [detalii...]

The Plateau Criminal Court in Abidjan, the commercial capital of Cote dIvoire, on July 26, 2010 convicted three detained editors of the privately-owned Le Nouveau Courrier newspaper over a charge of an "administrative [detalii...]

Disgraced American cyclist Floyd Landis was convicted by a French court Thursday for his role in hacking into the computers of the anti-doping lab that caught him cheating at the 2006 Tour de [detalii...]

The first woman ever charged with genocide by an international court was today convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison by the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the mass killings in Rwanda in [detalii...]

THE 12-member jury deliberating on the money laundering trial of associates of the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, yesterday, found his sister, Christine Ibie-Ibori, guilty of all charges of money laundering and mortgage [detalii...]

The United Nations tribunal trying those most responsible for the 1994 genocide that engulfed Rwanda today found a former mayor guilty of genocide and extermination and sentenced him to 15 years in [detalii...]

A French court has convicted American cyclist Floyd Landis in absentia for his role in hacking into the computers of a French doping [detalii...]

A group in Malawi is demanding the release of 80 convicted "witches" from prison. Most of the convicts are women who were convicted for teaching witchcraft to children. They are serving up to six years in [detalii...]

Justice Joseph Enwa Ikpala of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul on Monday 18th July 2011, acquitted and discharged one Dawda Jatta, an accused person who was being tried at the Banjul High Court. He was accused of illegally entering The Gambia from the trouble Senegalese region of Cassamance and being in possession of Illegal fire arm, while in the territorial periphery of the Republic of the [detalii...]

After months of preparation and fundraising, the Fog men’s A Side and B Side are heading to Minneapolis, MN, with the goal of reclaiming the Bingham Cup®. In 2002 Fog Rugby hosted the first Bingham Cup, which is named after the late Mark Bingham, a Fog founding member and 9-11 hero. The Fog are two-time Cup champions (2002 and 2004). In the 2008 tournament in Dublin, the Sydney convicts claimed the cup. Pre-tournament practices will be held this Thursday, June 17, and the games will take place Friday through Sunday, June 18-20. For more information on the tournament, visit the Bingham Cup 2010 website or the Bingham Cup Wikipedia [detalii...]