The Iraqi Ministry of Justice executed 11 convicted prisoners over terror charges, despite international
A prisoner was hanged on charge of rape and murder in public in Khonj, Iran.
Public stoning, once held up as the pinnacle of Taliban atrocity, could be reintroduced to punish
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted to posthumously pardon Charles Weems,
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
On April 27, the State of Texas will carry out the death sentence on Melissa Lucio.