Three prisoners were executed in three different cities between 22 and 26 November 2016.

As many as three of the four men on death row in the Belarusian capital Minsk have been executed in a shameful purge since 5 November, Amnesty International revealed today after confirming with local activists.

Four men were publicly hanged in the Persian Gulf Island of Qeshm, according to the local "qeshmeazad" news website.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Gergel granted a request from Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old charged

A Narsingdi court sentenced six people to death for killing an ice factory worker in the district town in 2008.

Anti-Terrorism Court in Hyderabad sentenced two persons to death for killing a person in 2015, who had refused to pay them ‘bhatta’.

Iran Human Rights has obtained information about an 18-year-old juvenile offender detained in Sanandaj

The Lagos State House of Assembly approved death sentence for kidnappers, whose victims died in their custody

Death convict Ivan Kulesh has been executed, Andrei Paluda, a coordinator of the campaign Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus, reports.

A court in Sri Lanka has given death sentences to 18 men over murdering a US tea company executive in the capital Colombo three years ago, the largest group to be condemned in a single trial in the South Asian country.

Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned death sentence of Iranian billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani, Mehr news agency reported citing an informed source.

A high instance court in the Gaza Strip upheld the death sentence of a Palestinian accused of having killed a