China's horrifying use of the death penalty remains one of the country’s deadly secrets, as the authorities continue to execute thousands of people each year, Amnesty International said in its 2016 global review of the death penalty published today.

An Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadav has been awarded death sentence through the Field Court Martial General (FCGM) under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) for espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan, the ISPR stated.

Dylann Roof, 23, White, was given nine consecutive life sentences in prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder charges Monday, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial.

Saudi Arabia executed three Pakistani nationals convicted of smuggling heroin, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom to 26 this year.

Judge blocks execution of 1 of 8 inmates set to die in Arkansas arguing that the hasty schedule doesn’t give the governor enough time to consider granting the inmate clemency.

A military court in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland executed five alleged Al Shabaab members in the Gulf of Aden port city of Bossaso, Garowe Online reports.

An Ilorin High Court sentenced three persons to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempt to murder Prof. Abdullahi Onimisi of University of Ilorin.

A court in Gazipur awarded death sentences to three men and life in prison to a woman for abducting and murdering a university student.

The 2016 volume of Attorney General Mike DeWine's "Capital Crimes Annual Report," released on Friday, said there have been 328 death sentences handed down in Ohio since 1981. Less than 20 % of those people have been put to death.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers hanged three men they accused of collaborating with Israel following calls for revenge for the killing of one of their commanders last month, an AFP journalist reported.

A lawyer for a man facing extradition to China on murder charges told New Zealand’s High Court that the government in Wellington could not rely on assurances from China that the man would not be tortured or receive the death penalty.

A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abuse.