Al Shabaab terror group executed two Kenyans it accused of spying for Somali and Kenyan intelligence services.

The 62nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR),

A court in Qatar has sentenced death penalty to a Nepali man by a firing squad for murdering a Qatari national Umair Mohammed Umair Al Ramzani Al-Nauimi.

Federal Judge Karon Owen Bowdre has ordered the Alabama Department of Corrections to release its lethal-injection protocol and unseal transcripts and pleadings related to the failed execution of Doyle Hamm.

Four people, two of them women, from Ngara District have been sentenced to death after they were convicted of murder.

26 february 2018: according to a local judicial source, the Egyptian authorities executed six people, five from the same family.

Burkina Faso's parliament has abolished the death penalty by adopting a new penal code that strikes it as a possible sentence.

President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the first ever mercy plea placed before him

Specialized criminal court in the capital Sanaa has sentenced to death seven supervisors of Ansarallah movement over criminal cases.

The Supreme Court upheld the death sentences earlier handed down to Aliaksandr Zhylnikau and Viachaslau Sukharko for the murder of three people.

Somali military court handed a death sentence to two Al-Shabaab operatives for their role in the deadly attack on Nasa Hablod hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.

The Galle High Court handed down the death sentences to three suspects found guilty of murder.