According to close sources, two prisoners were hanged on drug related charges at Dizsel Abad Prison. The

The Kandy High Court sentenced to death five persons found guilty of a murder in 1995.

Six Gazans were condemned to be hanged over charges they informed for Israel, two Hamas-run military courts ruled.

A Sudanese court has sentenced a defendant to death after he was found guilty of raping a two-year-old girl to death last year.

The state's execution protocol invites death row inmates' lawyers to provide drugs to kill their own clients - a suggestion attorneys describe as ludicrous.

Iran Human Rights has received reports of 15 executions in Iran.

Taiwan’s Supreme Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of two Filipinos convicted of murder, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) said.

27 years after a Dalit man was burnt alive by some upper caste men in Hathras, in the Indian state of Uttar

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania's long-standing

A soldier has been sentenced to death by an Abuja High Court which found him guilty of rape and culpable homicide.

A Lagos State High Court presided over by Justice Raliat Adebiyi, sentenced a man, Anuoluwapo Samuel, to death for murder.

Two unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison on February 12 on murder charges, and seven prisoners were reportedly hanged at Qom's Langroud Prison on February 13 on drug related charges.