Ten prisoners were hanged in the city of Urumieh, in northwestern Iran.

Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has upheld the death sentence for a defendant who killed a Lebanese national in

With 6,000 death row convicts, Kenya has the fourth largest death row population in the world. In the last

A Los Angeles County jury sentenced Chester Dewayne Turner, 47, Black, to death.

In a speedy, decisive judgment, the Mangaon court in Raigad district awarded the death sentence to a 24-

State-controlled media say a court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian citizen to death for

The Florida Supreme Court overturned 5-2 both the conviction and death sentence imposed on Paul C.

A Bahraini was sentenced to death for the vicious murder of a 20-year-old fugitive who allegedly posed as

Thirteen prisoners were hanged between 25 and 26 June in two prisons of Karaj.

Saudi authorities beheaded two nationals convicted of raping minors in two separate cases.

Policies and ideology of the prohibition on drugs have made and continue to make a significant contribution to the application of the death penalty in 2013 and the first six months of 2014.

Japan hanged a man, in the nation's first execution in 2014, and the ninth since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe came to power in December 2012.