a Japanese court overturned two earlier rulings and sentenced a man to death for

a stateless resident was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia after he was

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the central city of Isfahan,

the Palestinian High Military Court in Jenin sentenced Mr Tha'er Mahmoud Husni

Yemen's Primary Specialist Court delivered its rulings on two Yemeni brigands,

the High court in the southern province of Helmand, a one time Taliban bastion in

Iran has hanged four people convicted of drug trafficking in the country's

a Yemeni state security court sentenced to death a man convicted of detonating a

Saudi Arabia sentenced to death at least 30 Syrians in recent months for alleged

authorities in Riyadh executed Abdul Rahman ibn Saeed Al-Zahrani and Abdul

Pakistan, in a significant and a long-awaited step, has ratified the International

the head of the lower house of Belarus' parliament said that "the death penalty is