Six prisoners among them two women were hanged in the prison of Yazd (Central Iran), reported the official site of the Iranian Judiciary in Yazd.
High Court in Kampala, Uganda, has opened a four-day session to re-sentence 167 death row
Three Algerians accused of abducting and killing a young man one year ago in the Kabylie
Using torture to extract confessions must be eliminated, China's Supreme People's Court said, singling
Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights announced a desire to cancel the death penalty imposed on
The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee criticized serious rights violations in Iran, including
A High Court in Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria, has sentenced a 24-year-old secondary school
In Zimbabwe, an Inyathi man who murdered his uncle escaped the hangman's noose when a judge
Missouri corrections officials have executed Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist serial killer who targeted blacks and Jews, including an interracial couple in Wisconsin.
the NGO Libyan Prisoners Abroad reported that a Libyan found guilty of murder, Adel Zuwai, was
In India, a Sirsa court has sentenced two youths to death for rape and murder of a six-year-old
Three Uzbek friends were sentenced to death in Malaysia for trafficking more than 10kg of
On April 27, the State of Texas will carry out the death sentence on Melissa Lucio.
