Portugal’s foreign minister said that Equatorial Guinea must abolish the death penalty immediately or its

After 15 years on the death row, a Chadian prisoner was released due to the efforts of the National Human

Iranian authorities reportedly executed at least five prisoners.

A man was sentenced to death by a local court in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh for killing his wife and

An Egyptian court sentenced two local men to death on charges of involvement in militant attacks in Libya and planning assaults in Egypt, legal sources said.

Two prisoners have been executed at Salmas Prison (west Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran) on drug related charges.

A 45-year-old man charged with strangling and then raping his 14-year-old neighbour was sentenced to death.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tracie Todd re-sentenced Marcus Benn to life without the possibility of parole.

Zimbabwe last week pardoned 10 inmates who were on the death row after they requested for Presidential clemency while the remaining 80 will also survive the gallows if Government resolves to completely abolish capital punishment for all crimes, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.

Today begins a mission of Hands Off Cain in four African countries, Kenya, Zambia; Malawi and Swaziland with the aim of increasing support for the Resolution for the universal moratorium on capital executions on vote again at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Supreme Court (SC) converted the death penalty of two murder convicts to life imprisonment.

The Florida Supreme Court stopped a judge from proceeding with a death penalty case, signaling that