The death sentence for a young woman was confirmed by the Supreme Court, according to the state-run Aftab news agency.

The Miri High Court sentenced a man to death by hanging this morning after he was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend two years ago.

In a simple question, American voters support the death penalty 58 - 33 percent for persons convicted of murder, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.

Rosendo Rodriguez III, 38, Hispanic, was executed.

Six men were sentenced to death for the massacre of a Thai village headman and seven members of his family, including three children, over a land dispute.

Zhang Zhongsheng, the former vice mayor of Luliang City in north China’s Shanxi Province, was sentenced to death for taking bribes of more than 1 billion yuan (US$159 million).

A driver in Ghana has been sentenced to death after murdering and burying a British Missionary in a farm at Nsawam in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

At least 16 inmates sentenced to death have escaped the hangman’s noose.

The Sharjah Criminal Court ruled, in the presence of ‘blood relatives,’ to execute the Asian maid who was convicted of premeditatedly killing Salama Salem Al Mazmi, a 9 month-old infant.

Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday signed legislation that would allow a condemned inmate to choose death by nitrogen hypoxia, a method never used in an execution.

A Mandalay court sentenced to death a man for raping a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Madaya township last month.

A court sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for killing three elderly residents at a nursing home he was working for in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, in 2014.