An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure has sentenced a man, Aturoti Adeleke, to death by hanging, for armed robbery and rape.

Eighteen men were on trial in Nanjing for various offences, ranging from trafficking and possession to drug abuse and re-offending.

Orissa high court provided relief to five persons, who were convicted in rape and murder of a minor girl in Keonjhar, by commuting death penalty of two of the convicts to 35 years of imprisonment and acquitting the remaining three.

Ha'im Al Matin Sharif, 48, Black, was released from prison today, June 7, after spending more than 28 years on Nevada's death row.

A group of U.N. human rights experts demanded that Egypt halt the planned executions of six men sentenced to death on the basis of forced confessions.

Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court, presided by Ali Khalifah al-Dhahrani, delivered the death verdicts to Sayed Ahmed Fouad al-Abar and Hussein Ali Mahdi, sentenced two other defendants to life imprisonment and passed prison sentences ranging from 3 to 10 years to eight others, Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported.

A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he believed would banish evil spirits that possessed them.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation confirmed the death sentence for six university students.

China's latest cybersecurity law came into force last week and the sky did not fall and companies have not shuttered.

A Bahrain court sentenced to death one person and another to life in prison over a 2016 bombing that killed a woman in a Shiite-majority village.

Military court has sentenced Mohamed Adan Borow, to death penalty after he alleged the killing of a famous cleric in Baidoa mosque.

In a landmark judgment related to "honour killing", the Nashik district sessions court sentenced a man to death for killing his pregnant daughter in 2013 because she had married outside their caste.