A court in Algeria sentenced a fugitive leader of al-Qaeda's north African wing and three of his followers to death for attacks against the military.

Describing the act of a 40-year-old man, who murdered five persons under the influence

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Government will work to implement

Justice Lateefat Okunnu of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, Nigeria, sentenced a young man,

the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the state of Ohio challenging the

General amnesty was recently granted to thousands of detainees in Tunisian prisons in

14 activists arrested yesterday at U.S. Supreme Court to commemorate 35th anniversary

There was a sharp increase in the use of the death penalty in Iran in 2011, and many more were

In Pakistan, the court of District and Sessions Judge Karak Fazle Subhan announced death sentence

A soldier was executed in Mogadishu after he was found guilty of killing a fellow soldier

the Giza Criminal Court gave the death sentence to 35-year-old Mohamed

Iraq's presidency approved the death penalty for 11 men, including Al-Qaeda militants