Two Kuwaiti citizens were sentenced to capital punishment over their involvement in raping a female citizen.

Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State governor, has approved the grant of total pardon to five inmates who were serving various prison terms and commuted 30 others on death row to life imprisonment.

The Ndola High Court sentenced five men and two women to death by hanging for murdering Senior Chief Tafuna and his subject in Mpulungu following a succession dispute.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal prosecutors on Wednesday to seek the death penalty in drug-related cases whenever it is legally permissible.

The death sentence for a young woman was confirmed by the Supreme Court, according to the state-run Aftab news agency.

The Miri High Court sentenced a man to death by hanging this morning after he was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend two years ago.

In a simple question, American voters support the death penalty 58 - 33 percent for persons convicted of murder, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.

Rosendo Rodriguez III, 38, Hispanic, was executed.

Six men were sentenced to death for the massacre of a Thai village headman and seven members of his family, including three children, over a land dispute.

Zhang Zhongsheng, the former vice mayor of Luliang City in north China’s Shanxi Province, was sentenced to death for taking bribes of more than 1 billion yuan (US$159 million).

A driver in Ghana has been sentenced to death after murdering and burying a British Missionary in a farm at Nsawam in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

At least 16 inmates sentenced to death have escaped the hangman’s noose.