Giza criminal court has sentenced a young man to death for killing his father.

The plenary of the House of Representatives approved a constitutional amendment to strike out a provision in the country`s supreme law that enabled the imposition of the death penalty.

Over 21 people have been convicted of killing people with albinism in Tanzania and sentenced to death.

Seven prisoners were executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran) on

China strictly controls the death penalty and employs it with prudence, said a white paper on judical protection of human rights released by the State Council Information Office of China.

Iraqi authorities executed a Palestinian youth after accusing him of collaborating with armed groups in Iraq,

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), a prisoner from

According to close sources, 12 prisoners were executed in Karaj Central Prison early morning, Iran Human Rights (IHR) reported.

Cameroon has sentenced 109 people to death for having links with terrorist sect, Boko Haram.

A special women's court sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for murdering a Delhi resident by hurling acid at Bandra Terminus in 2013.

Director of Amnesty International Ghana, Lawrence Amesu, has revealed that close to 137 prisoners including three women are currently under death row awaiting execution.

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for three men found guilty of murdering the former mayor