the Supreme People's Court (SPC) is working on a guideline to unify standards for the issuing of the death

Mohammed Ali Johari, a murder convict, was hanged at Changi Prison in Singapore, police said.

Iran hanged two men in a prison in the religious city of Qom after they were convicted of drug trafficking,

death-row inmates executed in 2008 will certainly outnumber those whose death penalty was confirmed

Jamaica's senate voted to retain the death penalty, a punishment that has not been carried out in the country

Authorities in Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi citizen convicted of killing a fellow national after a dispute.

at about 8 am, Charles Elroy Laplace became the first convict in the St Kitts to hang in 10 years. The 40-

Iran hanged a man in a prison in the religious city of Qom, the government newspaper Iran reported.

the United Nations General Assembly approved the resolution for the moratorium on the death penalty for the second consecutive year, with 106 in favour, 46 against and 34 abstentions.

nine prison warders were sentenced to death for the murder of six inmates at the King’ong’o Maximum

A jury handed down New Hampshire's first death sentence in 49 years to a man who fatally shot a police

Two men were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of murder.