An Iraqi court sentenced a militant to death by hanging for the killing of three U.S. soldiers in 2006.

Japan hanged two more death-row inmates as the country steps up executions to a pace unseen in three decades, despite an ongoing UN review of its rights record.

Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking, the Fars news agency reported. The executions took

thousands of people gathered to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in

overseas Filipino worker Jenifer Bedoya, who was beheaded in Saudi Arabia, thought he was about to be released, according to family.

North Korea is using public executions to intimidate its citizens, the UN investigator on human rights in the

the Sudanese Supreme Court in Khartoum rejected an appeal by lawyer Kamal Umar Abd-al-Salam

Troy Davis, who has spent 17 years on death row for the murder of a policeman, was granted

the Hands Off Cain association awarded a sad title to Iran today. As in 2007, Iran comes second in the number of global death sentences carried out and is joined by China and Saudi Arabia on the podium of the three highest users of capital punishment.

a young man identified as Qanbar Kelari was hanged in public outside Nashtaroud prison in the northern province of Gilan.

the former vice mayor of a city in eastern China was sentenced to death for taking more than 100 million

a Ugandan woman who allegedly murdered her husband lost her appeal in the Supreme Court. Susan