a court in the northern province of Dien Bien handed down death sentences to three people and life imprisonment sentences to five others after they were convicted of cross-border drug trafficking.

convicted murderer Brandon Wayne Hedrick was executed in the electric chair in Virginia on July 20 night becoming the first person in the United States to be put to death by electrocution in more than two years.

a Texas gang member has been put to death by lethal injection for the 1996 murder of a San Antonio man - a crime for which he recanted his earlier confession.

more than five years after they committed the heinous crime, the Supreme Court has unanimously confirmed the death sentence passed on Constable Benjamin Oyakhire, one of the three police constables who murdered five businessmen on February 17, 2001 on Okene-Lokoja road.

The state will comply with a federal judge's order to revamp its execution procedures by Saturday's deadline but may not be able to conduct any, the head of Missouri's Department of Corrections said today.

three men, who were convicted of raping a woman in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, were hanged in central city of Lahore, a jail official said.

Libyan court will confirm the death sentences of Bulgaria's five nurses, a newspaper has said citing anonymous sources.

two Kyrgyz men charged with killing a parliamentarian have been sentenced to death, the general prosecutor's office said.

making no final statement and keeping his eyes trained on the ceiling, William "Junior" Downs was put to death by lethal injection for the 1999 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 6-year-old South Carolina boy.

Turkish women organizations joined the growing international campaign for Iranian woman prisoner Melek Ghorbany who was sentenced to death by stoning on June 28, by a court in the northwest Iranian city of Urmia after being found guilty of committing adultery.

MPs dropped the death penalty from all but one clause of Bahrain's proposed anti-terrorism law.

Shakarullah Ansari, a native of Uttar Pradesh, India, was hanged till death at 8:15 am Kuwait time on charges of murdering his employer.