Japan's top court upheld a death sentence against a doomsday cult member who played a

Gov. Rick Perry Monday signed a bill to increase punishment for sexual predators

troubled by atrocities against children that are increasing rapidly, the

Florida ended a moratorium on capital punishment today, spurred by a gruesomely

Saudi Arabia's Higher Committee for Reconciliation is seeking pardons for 400 death

Justice Pramod Kode handed the death sentence to Parvez Shaikh, Mushtaq

Libya dropped death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of children with HIV, commuting their punishments to life in prison, the foreign minister said

Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles today temporarily halted the execution of Troy Anthony Davis less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection

China sentenced a man to death and jailed another 28 people for their roles in a massive

Iran sentenced to death eight women currently serving time in Iranian prisons, the state-run daily

the official Saudi PressAgency carried a Saudi Interior Ministry statement announcing

Iran publicly hanged two men and a woman convicted of murder in the northwestern city of Tabriz and the southern city of Shiraz, media reports said.