in Malawi, the Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre declared that mandatory death

the culture committee of the Iranian parliament approved a bill sentencing to death

the Boston Globe Newspaper published an editorial in which it

an Indonesian man has been executed by a firing squad for his 1999 conviction of killing a family of six, including four children, on Borneo island.

a Mauritanian convicted of rape and a Saudi convicted of murder were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said.

An overwhelming majority of MEPs adopted a resolution backing a universal moratorium on capital punishment and urging the European Union presidency to act on the parliament's call earlier this year to table an immediate resolution at the United Nations.

in Iran, two men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in Tehran's main prison.

Three death row inmates were executed at detention centers in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.

Atef bin Mohammed al-Yassi was beheaded in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for beating to death Saud bin Mussaed al-Abdali with a piece of wood, official SPA news agency said in a statement.

a new scientific study of 41 lethal injections that took place in California and North

the Supreme Court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced two

Iraqi soldiers who desert their units now face execution, according to a decree by the country’s Presidential Council.