Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would consider bringing back capital punishment in terror related crimes, a decade after it abolished the practice.

In Zambia, the Supreme Court sitting in Kabwe has upheld the death sentence slapped on two men of

The lawyer for Australian nurse Emma Louise L'Aiguille accused of drug trafficking in Malaysia

A court in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland sentenced to death a man found

Iraqi authorities executed 10 prisoners for terrorism convictions, the Ministry of Justice announced.

Two prisoners at Dubai Central Jail who are on death row for a murder they committed in

A military court in Benghazi, Libya, has sentenced to death in absentia five soldiers of the murdered

One prisoner was hanged in the Isfahan central prison early this morning, reported the

Mario Swain, 33, black, was executed in Texas for a woman's slaying during a break-in at her home.

Eight people have been hanged in Iran in the last days for drug trafficking.

With the release of an Italian passport, was reached a first positive result of the international campaign to save the life of Anthony Farina. The campaign was launched on October 1 in Rome by Hands Off Cain with the Community of Sant'Egidio, the British humanitarian organization "Reprieve" and the Northwestern University in Illinois. Farina, who was sentenced to death in Florida, and his family is originally from Santo Stefano di Camastra, a small coastal town in the province of Messina.

In Vietnam, many National Assembly deputies expressed their lack of sympathy with