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

three brothers were sentenced to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 32-year-old woman after they

an Iraqi national was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of smuggling hashish into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.

at the end of the Meeting of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Vice Premier Massimo D'Alema announced that the EU ministers have unanimously given Italy and the German presidency the task to prepare the text for the resolution on the moratorium for the death penalty, which is to be presented at the current UN General Assembly.

Iran publicly hanged 15 men convicted of drug trafficking in the northeastern city of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi province.

Not a single person sentenced to death has been executed in Uzbekistan since 2005, Justice Minister Fozilzhon Otakhonov told Interfax.