Death Penalty

Brunei has postponed its planned implementation of its new penal code that includes harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.

A group of high-dollar LGBT donors has cancelled plans to hold its upcoming conference at the famed Beverley Hills Hotel in Los Angeles following news that its owner, the Sultan of Brunei, would institute a revised penal code in his country which calls for death by stoning for homosexual activity.

The United Nations Human Rights office has condemned a revised penal code in Brunei which calls for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.

A new report from The New York Times links three American evangelical Christians — whose teachings about “curing” gays have been widely discredited in the U.S. — as influential in Uganda’s anti-gay legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by death. According to the Times, the three spoke at an event in Uganda last March, where […]

Uganda has signaled plans to soften its proposed anti-gay legislation, but the government denied on Wednesday that it was bowing to an outcry in the West over a controversial bill that could have seen homosexuals put to death, reports Reuters. Ethics and Integrity Minister Nsaba Buturo told Reuters the revised law would now probably limit […]

The BBC has issued an apology following complaints about an online debate which asked: “Should homosexuals face execution?” in response to proposed anti-gay legislation in Uganda. Critics blasted the British broadcaster, saying the BBC should not treat the execution of gays as a legitimate topic for discussion. Some readers mused if the BBC would have […]

The BBC has come under fire for opening a debate on its website asking: “Should homosexuals face execution?” The discussion comes in response to a proposed anti-gay legislation in Uganda that could lead to the death penalty for homosexuals. Several British politicians denounced the BBC, said the taxpayer-funded broadcaster should not treat the execution of […]

The current version of the anti-gay bill under consideration in Uganda still contains punishments including life inprisonment and the death penalty, despite recent reports to the contrary, according to The Guardian. The Ugandan bill extends existing laws to make it illegal to promote homosexuality by talking or writing about it, and forcing people to tell […]

Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti- gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks, according to James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, reports Bloomberg. The draft bill, which is under consideration by a parliamentary committee, […]