China defended the death penalty as a traditional deterrent, after Amnesty International released its annual

Five men have been sentenced to death in Zambia after being convicted on charges of murder, attempted

Seven people, including Kiran Yadav (Guru mata), who had allegedly kidnapped and murdered a two-

the Supreme Court reiterated that three men from Tamil Nadu convicted of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi will not hang.

In Sri Lanka, ten persons were sentenced to death by the Kandy High Court after being found

Al-Shabaab group executed three men in Barawe, a port town in the Lower Shabelle region. An Al-

the Military Court of Somalia in Mogadishu sentenced to death an Al-Shabaab member who was found

A Pakistani court found Sawan Masih, a 35-year-old Christian, guilty of blasphemy and sentenced him to death.

A move by Hamas to replace an almost 80-year old punitive law with a new conservative one has been

The Supreme Court four-judge bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam commuted the death sentence

Anthony Doyle, 29, Black, was executed in Texas.

Taiwan's Ministry of Justice said that it will continue carrying out capital punishment lawfully and with