An Iranian woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning. Sakineh Mohamamadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, was accused of having extramarital relations with two men who ended up killing her husband.

An Iranian military court sentenced two men to death in connection with the killings of three anti-government protesters, the state news agency said.

a Yemeni court sentenced five Yemeni nationals, a Kenyan, a Somalian and a Tanzanian

two men convicted of selling and trafficking 12,242 grams of heroin to Taiwan were executed

in India, eight convicts on death row in two separate cases of murder received

Obeid bin Saif al-Qahtani was beheaded by the sword in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for fatally

The Nigerian government decided to resume the execution of prison inmates to ease prison

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Billy Joe Magwood, ruling that Magwood can argue that Alabama retroactively changed its laws to make his crime qualify for the death penalty.

top Egyptian Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya leader Abdel Hamid Musa Abu Aqrab was sentenced

in the Bahamas, Justice Neville Adderley sentenced Renaldo Bonaby to death for murder.

six men were executed in southeast China's Fujian Province ahead of the International

a court in Nouakchott, Mauritania, handed down ten death sentences for