Cameroon President Paul Biya has ordered the release of several high profile former government officials-

Three years after he was accused of killing Titilayo, his banker wife, Akolade Arowolo was sentenced to

A Saudi citizen convicted of murder was beheaded today, the interior ministry announced, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 10.

Gujarat High Court has commuted the death sentence of a murder convict, who killed five members of a

A Bahrain court sentenced a protester to death and jailed six others for life after they were convicted of

A man convicted of murder in Trinidad and Tobago in 2008 will be resentenced after the Privy Council

A girl was stoned to death in Syria for having a Facebook account. Fatoum Al-Jassem was executed by a

Quinnipiac Poll says Ohioans favor the death penalty unless they have options. When asked if they favor or

twelve prisoners were executed in six different Iranian cities. Two executions were carried out in public.

Sixteen prisoners on death row – five women and 11 men – were pardoned after they successfully

A tribal couple in southwest Pakistan have been stoned to death allegedly on the orders of a local cleric

A Delhi court awarded death penalty to three youths for abduction, gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old