the Palestinian movement Hamas executed three men convicted of murder in its Gaza enclave, the interior ministry said in a statement.
at a court in Grodno, Belarus, judge Pyotr Bandyk sentenced Aleg Gryshkautsou (29) and Andrei Burdyka (28), to death for the October murder of two women and a man during an armed robbery.
in Iran, Tehran’s Prosecutor General, Abbas Jaafari Dowlatabadi, announced that the death sentence
The lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks could be executed this year
The death sentence for six opposition activists arrested in protests after last year's
Malaysian High Court judge Datuk Syed Ahmad Helmy sentenced freelance contractor Cheah
European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton pleaded with Iran to drop death sentences
Taiwan’s Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu said there was no need to hold a
The state of Texas executed by lethal injection a 41-year-old man convicted in
Two drug traffickers have been sentenced to death for dealing large amounts of crystal methamphetamine, or "ice", in east China's Zhejiang Province, sources with the local court said.
Kenya rejected a UN proposal to delete the death penalty from its law books among
Singapore's law minister K Shanmugam justified imposing the mandatory death penalty for drug
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
