“We can say that there are lights and shadows in this first pass in the Third Committee on Human Rights. Let’s start from the not exactly positive aspects: it is reflected in this vote the tendency, almost worldwide, of a return to national sovereignty.

The Ministry of Interior executed Saudi national Munira bint Zuweid Al-Hadhli for killing her husband, in the city of Mecca.

Singapore executed two foreigners convicted of drug trafficking, authorities said, a day after the city-state's highest court rejected final bids for both men to escape the gallows.

The Semarang District Court in Central Java sentenced Muhammad Riaz to death for smuggling 97

Kenya has been asked to consider abolishing the death penalty since it is not compatible with the

Steven Frederick Spears, 54, White, was executed.

Iranian authorities executed at least nine prisoners today.

A court in the Indian state of Bihar awarded death penalty to 10 and sentenced three to life imprisonment in

A Dhaka court has sentenced two persons to death for the murder of a 22-year-old man.

The Egyptian Court of Cassation annulled the death sentence of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and ordered a new trial before a criminal court.

After years of declining use of the death penalty across the United States and declining public support for

A Chinese man who killed a village official after his home was forcibly demolished was executed, a court