A plenary session of Russia's Supreme Court asked the Constitutional Court to rule on whether capital

The United States and European Union signed an extradition agreement that allows EU nations to refuse to

Two men were sentenced to death by the Kuantan High Court in Malaysia after they were found guilty of

a Yemini court sentenced four al-Houthi rebel fighters to death for their role in clashes against the military at

Reginald Blanton was executed this evening in Texas.

a man in Belarus was sentenced to death for killing two guards while robbing a vehicle carrying cash despite his request for clemency.

an Islamic law authorising the stoning to death of adulterers and the whipping of homosexuals in Indonesia's

Two people have been executed in China for their involvement in deadly riots in Tibet last year, the Chinese

in Zambia, Lusaka High Court judge Christine Phiri sentenced Joe Songiso to death by hanging for

the four defendants accused of killing the US diplomat Michael Granville and his Sudanese driver Abd-al-

Somalia's Al Shabaab Islamist movement publicly executed two young men by firing squad for alleged spying for the Somali government in the southern town of Marka. An official from the group told crowds who gathered to watch the punishment that the men had "confessed to the crime."

Saudi Arabian man Ghanim bin Marzuq al-Dosari was beheaded by the sword in Riyadh for murdering an