the official Saudi Arabian Press Agency website carried a Saudi Interior Ministry statement saying that the

Amnesty International appealed to Iran to stop executing children and those who committed their crimes

the Yahar Primary Court in Lahj, Yemen, sentenced Mohsen Yahia Munassar to death for the shooting

Norimichi Kumamoto, a former judge who in 1968 sentenced a pro boxer to

a court in eastern Wenzhou city, China, has handed death sentences with a two-year reprieve to

The execution of people under the age of 18 has "practically stopped" in Iran and the government is

Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as ``Chemical Ali,'' and two other regime

a Chinese court has sentenced 14 gang members to death for murder

Iran has publicly hanged a man convicted of murder in the western city of Khorramabad,

The application of the death penalty in Indonesia is likely

Iran should immediately suspend the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by

Under pressure to reduce its huge number of annual executions as it prepares