Criminal Law
Crime and Punishment Reflections on the Application of Death Penalty in Nigeria and Beyond
The debates and controversies on the application of death penalty in Nigeria are ongoing. The scope of the application of death penalty has recently been expanded in some Nigerian states to cover catt...
The Application of Hudud law to the Offence of Rape in Pakistan A misconstruction of the principles of Shari‘ah law.
Rape is a grievous offence under Islamic criminal law and some scholars treat it as a form of the hadd offence of zina(i.e. illicit sexual intercourse). This characterisation of rape as zinā is proble...