Arizona executed a 50-year-old man by lethal injection for the murder of a camper in 1987, state prison officials said.

a japanese man was sentenced to death for bashing two men then burying them alive.

a court in Ho Chi Minh City Monday rejected appeals against death sentences

African parliamentarians backed death sentences imposed in Libya on five Bulgarian nurses and a

A Pakistani national convicted of drug trafficking has been hanged in Kuwait, officials said.

Three people convicted of murder and two others found guilty of drug smuggling were hanged in Iran, AFP reported.

A Sharia court in Nigeria's north-eastern Bauchi State has sentenced a man to death for raping two teenage

Saudi authorities beheaded two Ethiopians convicted of killing a Saudi national in an armed robbery and

Nigeria has granted an amnesty to all prisoners over 70 and to those over 60 who have been on death row

Kansas prison escapee was executed for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy who was trying to pull him over for stealing $22.50 worth of gasoline from a service station.

at today's joint session of the Kazakhstan parliament's two chambers, President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Curtis Edward McCarty, who had been sentenced to die three times and has spent 21 years on Oklahoma's