The Ndola High Court has found former minister of Defence George Mpombo’s 17-year-old son guilty of shooting dead his pregnant girlfriend and beheading her.

Six defendants involved in Viet Nam’s biggest drug trafficking case were sentenced to death by the People’s Court of the northern Quang Ninh Province.

The Iraqi authorities executed 88 terrorists convicts in 2016, despite the international calls to stop this punishment in this country.

A man convicted of setting a bus on fire two years ago was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Two former Pennsylvania death row prisoners who have asserted their innocence for decades, Tyrone Moore and James Dennis, pled no contest to lesser charges.

According to eyewitnesses, flogging punishment of a young man charged with theft, and whose identity is

Limbadri, an Indian worker, never had it in his wildest dreams that he would escape death sentence

A Jordanian court sentenced five members of an ISIL cell to death by hanging for acts of terrorism.

Amputation verdicts of two prisoners were carried out in the prison of Urmia (Northwestern Iran).

Ghulam Abbas Suhani had to be hanged on December 27 but the execution was stopped today, just one

A state security court sentenced four Jordanians to death for murdering a member of the security forces involved in the fight against drugs trafficking, a judicial source said.

Edo State government executed three death row inmates who were sentenced to death by military tribunals