A sessions court in Tirunelveli has awarded death sentence to a couple for murdering a Dalit woman on

A death row prisoner was executed in Adiyala Jail over murdering two people who included a judge.

Two prisoners were hanged in public in the city of Sarpol-e Zahab (Kermanshah province, western Iran) on Moharebeh charges.

The Lagos State House of Assembly approved death penalty for offenders as it passed the anti-kidnapping Bill into law.

Bahrain’s Cassation Court upheld the death sentence for three people found guilty of killing UAE army

Ten persons were sentenced to death after being found guilty of two murders reported in Matara and Badulla.

Efforts to revive the death penalty in California were dealt another blow late last month when a state agency

An Army Corporal accused of murdering a four-year-old child was sentenced to death by firearm, the lawyer of the victim’s family confirmed.

State corrections officials have adopted a new lethal-injection procedure that includes a drug never before

Iran reportedly hanged three prisoners at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj and one prisoner at Lakan central prison in Rasht.

Citing "serious concerns about the use of capital punishment in the state of Washington," Governor Jay Inslee granted a reprieve to Clark Richard Elmore, whom the state's Department of Corrections had scheduled for execution on January 19, 2017, and urged the state legislature to abolish capital punishment in the state.

A Doha Criminal Court has convicted five expatriate men for engaging in illicit drugs smuggling and sentenced their leader to death by hanging.