Because of mistakes and a lack of efficacy, the death penalty is losing

Rwanda's parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, a move that should clear the way for

a 25 year old man in the United Arab Emirates who raped

The number of people executed has dropped in the first five months of the year after the Supreme People's

China has executed far fewer people since being awarded the 2008 Olympics six years ago but the

the European Union condemned an Indonesian court for sentencing two Europeans to death for drugs offences, urging the authorities in Jakarta to abolish capital punishment.

a court here has awarded death sentence to two persons in connection with kidnapping of two farmers.

a judge will not hear legal challenges to the state's lethal injection procedure until October.

three Afghans convicted of drug trafficking were beheaded in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry announced.

A Pakistani district court condemned to death Younis Masih, a Christian accused of blasphemy. The

A court in northern Vietnam sentenced two people to death and seven others to life in prison for heroin trafficking.

Iran publicly hanged two men convicted of raping and murdering young girls in the northern Mazandaran province