The state of Pennsylvania has asked the US Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to overturn

A new Iranian judicial directive bans the execution of juvenile offenders for drug crimes but keeps capital

Beijing's former vice mayor Liu Zhihua was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes,

a total of 40 Filipinos overseas are facing the death penalty in various countries, a government official of the

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the western town of Doroud in Lorestan province,

problems with the proposal to end the death penalty in Zanzibar prompted a heated debate among legal

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi man convicted of murder. The Interior Ministry said Faten bin

human rights watchdog Amnesty International said that the Saudi Arabian government "continues

the European Economic and Trade Office (EETO) in Taiwan, The French Institute in Taiwan, National

the Malaysian High Court sentenced a 61 year old senior citizen to death after

the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Troy Davis to be put to death for killing a police officer, despite calls from his supporters to reconsider the case.

two men were beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Venancio Ladion, from the Philippines, was convicted of murdering a Saudi man in the holy city of Mecca by suffocating him and piercing his neck with a pen. He was executed by the sword, Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry announced.