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The article reports that courts and prosecutors in Suriname has given notice to stop the proceedings regarding the military executions trial in the country.

The article offers information on the execution of 24-year-old medical aide worker Hauwa Liman by Boko Haram and mentions views of Patricia Danzi, director of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Africa, on sparing women abducted by Boko Haram.

The article discusses several incidents from history of African Americans. It mentions that African American activist Khalid Abdul Muhammad transitioned onto the ancestral realm in Atlanta, Georgia. It also highlights anniversary of the execution of African American Muslim minister Malcolm X at Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights in New York.

The article reports on the death penalty debates in U.S. states. In Oregon, Governor John Kitzhaber has taken a stand against government execution, releasing a statement discussing a repeal of the death penalty in his state. North Carolina's Racial Justice Act allows death row inmates to appeal their sentences on the basis that racial bias played a role in their fate. The state has the sixth highest number of prisoners on death row.

The article reports on the state-sanctioned execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, and the protests against his execution at the Union Square in New York City .

The article offers news briefs related to several issues in Africa including an overnight prayer session organized by Ugandans in Kampala, Uganda, to condemn the hanging of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Education Minister of South Africa Naledi Pandor, has expressed his disappointment on the increasing drop-out rate in school-going students. Professor Mahmood Mamdani, wrote a critique on Makerere University in Uganda, blaming World Bank policies for eroding educational levels there.

The article reports on the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006. The Sunni followers of Hussein are considering the hanging of Hussein as a rush to vengeance by the U.S. government rather than justice for the former dictator. Also, calculating the timing of the execution, keeping in mind the eve of Id al-adha, one of Islam's most sacred holidays, will fuel the discontent to even more.

The article presents the author's views related to capital punishment. According to the author, even the executioner is not proud of what he has to do, in fact, in a firing squad, only one rifle has bullets. In the vials containing poison, only one vial contains the chemical, and during electrocution, only one in the team gives the gesture for ending one's life. The author presents examples of the last meals requested by men on death row in the state of Texas. The author requests all to pray, visit and write to those who are in prison and be thankful.

This article reports that unless she receives a stay, a Black woman will be executed in Texas, the first execution of this sort in the state since Reconstruction. Frances Newton's life hangs in the balance. She was convicted of killing her husband and two children, despite charges from her supporters, human rights organizations and an editorial in an Austin newspaper that she did not get a fair trial. If she had the money to have had a full investigation done prior to trial, and if she wasn't left prey to the forensic lab that took a main piece of evidence and contaminated it by sticking it in with a bunch of other clothing, Frances would likely not be facing an execution date. According to the prosecution, Newton killed her family members in 1987 in order to get the insurance money, but her new attorney, David Dow, head of the Innocence Network at the University of Houston Law Center, contends that he has uncovered evidence to prove her innocence.

Focuses on the scheduled execution of Toronto Patterson for a crime committed at the age of 17 in the U.S. Violation of the international treaties; Number of Afro-American juvenile offenders on death row; Reflection of Patterson about the execution.

Comments on the selection by Timothy McVeigh of words from the poem 'Invictus' as his final words before he was executed in Indiana on June 2001 for the killing of 168 in the Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing. Statement that he should have used a passage from Andrew Macdonald's novel 'The Turner Diaries.'

Reports that Elizabeth L. Orage, Dora B. Badey, Alex Badey and Clestine Mweabe, four widows whose husbands were allegedly murder by playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria, have travelled to the United States to tell their story. Description of how their husbands met their death; role played by Saro-Wiwa in their deaths; International reaction to the execution of Saro-Wiwa, a playwright in November 1995; Reason for the delay by the widows in relating their stories.

The article offers information on the execution of Troy Davis, an American convicted of and executed for the murder of a police offer, and its impact on the movement for abolition of capital punishment in the U.S. It states that the execution has revealed the inadequacies of the judicial system and the need to abolish death penalty. It states that various remembrance events, vigils and economic boycotts occurred across the U.S. in his support during October 2011.

The article presents information on the debate over use of capital punishment with reference to two cases including execution of Troy Davis in Georgia and Lawrence Brewer in Texas. It is stated that it is an issue that divides the U.S. as thirty-four states allow death penalty while 16 states do not.

The authors reflect on the collective action aimed at ending unjust executions and abolishing the death penalty in the U.S. They cite the people's effort to send petitions and letters on behalf of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist Troy Anthony Davis, who was executed in Georgia. They also comment on the move of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to allow Davis's execution despite its role to ensure that executions never occur amidst doubts.

The article focuses on the execution date of marksman John Allen Muhammad which is set on November 10, 2009. Muhammad used a high-power rifle on his three-week shooting spree in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. accompanied by Lee Boyd Malvo who is now serving life imprisonment. Muhammad's attorneys plan to appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court and ask for clemency from the governor of Virginia.

The article reports on the demand for stay of execution for the case of Troy Anthony Davis, an African American who was convicted for murder in the U.S. However, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the case of Davis. France, the current president of the European Council with the Czech Republic and the European Commission write to make an urgent humanitarian appeal on behalf of Davis.

The article presents the author's views on whether the prosecution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is just and its repercussions. The author states that although Hussein's crime against humanity are well documented, his death will have far-reaching consequences. He dubs Hussein's hanging as another critical mistake in the war on terrorism.

The article focuses on the views of the author on the execution of Stanely Tookie Williams, who was convicted of killing four people during a robbery attempt in 1979. The state of California, through Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, killed a human being because he was told by legal authorities that Williams had killed others, and as result, the law of the land dictated that he should die. There is something wrong with a law like that and there is certainly something wrong with a human being with intent on becoming, through election, someone who cannot only make that decision, but carry it out.

The article presents information about the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams, convicted of killing four people during a robbery attempt in 1979. The execution of Williams, at 12:35 am Pacific Time, certainly wasn't right to those demanding clemency for Williams. In a blunt, five-page statement, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recited his reasons for denying Williams' clemency. In his statement denying clemency for Williams, Schwarzenegger oddly cited a dedication Williams made in his autobiography, "Life in Prison," written in 1998.

This article reports that condemned inmate Ronald R. Howard, who cited anti-police rap music as the motive for murdering a Texas state trooper in 1992, was executed in Huntsville, Texas. Howard was executed for the murder of 43-year old Public Safety Officer Bill Davidson during a traffic stop for a broken headlight. At the time of the shooting, Howard was 18 and a father of four, and was on probation for burglary. His attorneys argued that rap's anti-police messages influenced him to shoot Davidson as he approached his vehicle on the evening of April 11, 1992.

The article cites an incident in August 1822 only weeks after Denmark Vesey had been executed for planning a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina when Rufus King received an anonymous letter that would go down in history. Inside the envelope was a strongly worded newspaper editorial criticizing abolitionists like himself for encouraging Vesey, but the most frightening message belonged to the sender, who had drawn King's name hanging from the gallows.

Explores the reaction of kids on the death execution of juvenile offenders in the U.S. Involvement of politics; Responsibility of children for crimes committed; Election of government officials.

Reports international news briefs as of June 2002. Scarcity of food aid in Southern Africa; Postponement of the execution of Amina Lawal for adultery; Assessment of the International Labor Organization on child labor in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Reports that summary executions are being done in Brazil despite the absence of a death penalty in the country. Number of victims of summary executions at the hands of police or death squads based on a report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland; Goal of a mission to Brazil headed by U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nigel Rodley, which prepared the report.

Reports that the Black Leadership Forum Inc. (BLF) has urged United States President Bill Clinton to declare a moratorium on federal executions. Concerns about the disparity in racial and geographic composition of the individuals on federal death row; Clemency to inmate Juan Raul Garza; Objectives of BLF.

Urges a moratorium on all executions in the United States. Author's denial that he killed Bobby Lambert; Profession of innocence; Concerns over state-sanctioned murder and lynching; Personalities whom the author expressed his gratitude.

Reports on notable developments in the United States, as of March 9, 2000. lawmaker Charles Rangel's comments on Republican George W. Bush's issuance of an apology to Catholics; Resolution passed by the Baltimore, Maryland, City Council urging a moratorium on executions in the state; Demonstration held by supported of jailed activist Mumia Abu-Jamal in Washington, D.C.

Comments on the planned execution of death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal in Pennsylvania. Arguments of parties favoring the execution of Abu-Jamal; Concerns over the public's apathy towards the moral and legal arguments against death penalty.

Reports on the November 21, 1995 demonstration led by African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to denounce the execution of nine activists in Nigeria. Tutu's role in the foiled attempt to bargain for the activists' release from prison; Excerpts from Tutu's released statement.

Laments that the 75th anniversary of Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League has been chosen for the execution of Mumia Abu Jamal, Pennsylvania death row prisoner, by Judge Sabo and Governor Tom Ridge. Instances from the similar cases in past.