three Iranians convicted of killing a businessman were hanged in the western city of Kermanshah, a newspaper reported.

the Nigerian Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of Suleiman Olawale Arogundare for killing his

the Sana'a Court of Appeals in Yemen upheld the death sentence against a man for rape

Three Yemenis have been executed by firing squads after being convicted in separate cases of murder, the

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said he has no immediate plans to lift the state's 9-year-old death penalty moratorium

a group of 150 Iranian lawyers addressed a letter to the country's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud

A Tennessee man was executed by lethal injection for the death of a couple in 1985, authorities said. Steve Henley, 55, was sentenced to death for the slayings of Fred and Edna Stafford.

A gay Iraqi man due for deportation tomorrow has been told by the UK Border Agency to conduct his

One man was hanged in the prison of Bojnord (in the Iranian province of Northern Khorasan), reported the

Presiding Judge Hiroshi Shida of the Sendai High Court in Japan upheld the death sentence

three Iranians convicted of murder have been hanged recently in the south of the country, local newspapers

at a court in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the death sentence of Faisal Al-Otaibi, alias Abu Kab, was overturned.