Ohio put to death the killer of a Toledo store owner with the country's first-ever use of pentobarbital

Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty today, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men.

Presiding Justice Kiyoko Okabe of the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the death penalty

in Jhelum, Pakistan, Additional Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Zargham sentenced Malik Ashraf

Justice Datuk Abdul Alim Abdullah of the Malaysian High Court sentenced unemployed

Iran hanged three Afghan nationals in a prison in Tehran after they were found guilty of raping an Afghan

Somalia’s al Shabaab group executed Abdullahi Hajji Mohammed and Abdinasir Hussein Ali at Maslah

Doctors at southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (KCGMH) conducted liver transplant surgeries after receiving the bodies of two inmates executed, local media reported.

a Saudi appeal court reversed a death sentence against three teen agers found guilty of causing the

Iran executed two people in Oroumieh Prison as part of its attempts to terrorize the population

Radical Parliamentarian Matteo Mecacci is today in Accra to participate in the National Constitutional Conference.

Five convicts on death row were executed in Taiwan, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement