Indonesia's staunchly Muslim Aceh province is set to enforce a strict form of Islamic criminal law, including

drunk drivers caught in Shanghai will face a minimum 15 days in detention and a maximum death penalty, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau announced.

in Nigeria, Chief Justice Bemari Bansi of the Yola High Court sentenced Patrick Ozeoma to hang for a

The government of Japan continues to execute prisoners who are mentally ill,

The Indonesian House of Representatives and the government agreed to pass a state

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has given assurances that two Norwegians sentenced to death for murder and spying would not be executed, Norway's foreign ministry said.

Broad body of evidence points to wrongful execution of texan Cameron Todd Willingham white, 36 at the

a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death on charges of murder and espionage.

the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights said that Egyptian nationals Hijazi Ahmad Zaydan, Haytham al-

the Kremlin says Russia will continue to maintain a moratorium on capital punishment.

lifetime jail terms or the death penalty would be pronounced on manufacturers and distributors of fake and

a Turkish citizen arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2007 for drug trafficking was recently sentenced to death, his