Mongolia's president announced a moratorium on the death penalty, a move that rights groups welcomed as a step toward changing Mongolian law to ban executions permanently.

A Saudi man was beheaded in Madinah for raping and robbing four women after offering to give them a

Abbas Jaafari Dowlat Abadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor, announced today that the cases of five individuals

six men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged early this morning in a prison in

seven men were executed by the by the Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People's

two Burmese officials were sentenced to death for leaking to North Korea and Russia details

dissident Ardeshir Geshavarz was hanged in the northern Iranian city of Karaj. He was accused

Iraq executed 77 people last year, all of whom were convicted of terrorism-related offences, the country's supreme court said.

Ahmad Karimi, a young carpenter accused of being a ringleader in the post-election unrest in Iran

three men were hanged in the prison of Isfahan (central Iran) according to the official site of Isfahan’s

An Egyptian court sentenced three men to death after they were convicted of rape and armed robbery

Akmal Shaikh, a British national who was convicted of smuggling drugs into China, was executed by lethal