A man convicted of battering his girlfriend's 8-year-old son and stuffing the body in a freezer was put to death in Oklahoma, while a man in Alabama was executed for fatally stabbing a mother of six.

Amnesty International said that Ifraah Ali Aden, 30, is in imminent danger of being

Authorities in Iran hanged two people convicted of drug trafficking in the northern city of Qazvin, the government newspaper Iran reported.

The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill that replaces the state's

Kazuo Okikura, 61, was sentenced to death for killing a wealthy woman and her

six men have been recently hanged in Iran for murder and drug trafficking, local media reported.

in Kuantan, Malaysia, a former policeman was sentenced to death after he was

Omar Ben Titraoui was sentenced to death in absentia for terrorism by

two men who were juveniles at the time of their alleged crimes were beheaded by Saudi

Iran wants to reduce the number of "unnecessary executions" it carries out, a spokesman for the Islamic republic's judiciary said.

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in an execution carried out in a prison in the

Five men sentenced to death for crimes including theft, child abduction, rape, and