At least 36 Kurdish Sunni prisoners were hanged at dawn in Rajai Shahr Prison, Karaj, the Human Rights

The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for more than fifteen years, was again confirmed in 2015 and the first six months of 2016.

As can be seen in the 2016 Report by Hands off Cain, the worldwide trend towards de jure or de facto

On the the Throne Day, King Mohammed VI granted pardon to 1,272 persons who were convicted by

A Bangladeshi expatriate was executed in the Governorate of Jeddah for killing a compatriot during a

North Korea publicly executed six officials in charge of supervision of its workers overseas in May

A war crimes prosecutor on Tuesday asked the judge to put 2,976 death certificates of the people killed on

A Bangladesh court upheld the death sentence for six Islamist militants convicted over a suicide bombing in

Indonesia has carried out its first executions in more than a year despite a string of legal appeals, diplomatic pressure and international condemnation.

The Supreme Court upheld a third death sentence since the current administration lifted a six-decade moratorium on capital punishment in 2014.

Two Saudi millionaires has donated SR225,000 (Php2.8 million) to pay the blood money (diya) for a

Iran's regime hanged a group of six prisoners in a jail in north-western Iran and a seventh prisoner in the north-east of the country.