St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas says his government

The U.N. human rights office voiced concern at a recent rise in executions in Iran and implored

An 84-year-old Nigerian Muslim preacher with 86 wives intends to marry more women

‘The moratorium was achieved, now it needs to be applied,' Emma Bonino, Senate Vice President, said during a television interview.

a court in Vietnam sentenced two people, including a woman, to death and jailed three

in only the second case of its kind in Ahmedabad state, a man was sentenced to death by a Nadiad

a Malian man convicted of serial robbery and attempted rape was put to death by the sword in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.

a Pakistani man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca after the victim's family refused "blood money."

Saudi authorities announced the beheading of a citizen convicted of drug trafficking.

Iran hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in the northern town of Noshahr, Fars news agency reported.

the Provincial judiciary department announced that verdicts were passed for the execution of three people for drug smuggling.

Four men and one woman were hanged in a Tehran jail for murder, with two others given