Danny Paul Bible, 66, White, was executed Wednesday for a 1979 rape and murder that went unsolved for 2 decades until he confessed.

The government is looking into the need to make amendments to do away with the mandatory death penalty in legislation pertaining to criminal offences,

A prisoner was executed on murder charge at Tabriz central prison this morning.

The High Court in Barbados can no longer impose mandatory death sentences on convicted murderers.

Cairo Criminal Court issued preliminary death sentences on six people convicted of attacking a Qalyubiya police checkpoint, killing one sergeant, in 2016.

An appeals court in Sudan has overturned the death sentence of a woman who killed her husband after he allegedly raped her, her lawyer says.

A prisoner was hanged at Shirvan Prison in Northern Khorasan Province.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that an army pledges allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization carried out the first stoning against a woman

A large majority of Thai people support the death penalty under the Criminal Code, according to the result of an opinion survey by Super Poll, a pollster of a foundation for happiness and leadership research.

According to a survey conducted by international criminologist, Dr Mai Sato, in collaboration with the Mass Public Opinion Institute, most Zimbabweans would be happy to see the abolition of capital punishment.

The Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia just issued a press statement, indicating that the man who burned his father alive has been executed.

Ten drug traffickers were executed in Guangdong province after an appeals court upheld their earlier conviction and pronounced sentence.