Singapore executed two foreigners convicted of drug trafficking, authorities said, a day after the city-state's highest court rejected final bids for both men to escape the gallows.

The Semarang District Court in Central Java sentenced Muhammad Riaz to death for smuggling 97

Kenya has been asked to consider abolishing the death penalty since it is not compatible with the

Steven Frederick Spears, 54, White, was executed.

Iranian authorities executed at least nine prisoners today.

A court in the Indian state of Bihar awarded death penalty to 10 and sentenced three to life imprisonment in

A Dhaka court has sentenced two persons to death for the murder of a 22-year-old man.

The Egyptian Court of Cassation annulled the death sentence of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and ordered a new trial before a criminal court.

After years of declining use of the death penalty across the United States and declining public support for

A Chinese man who killed a village official after his home was forcibly demolished was executed, a court

Kuwaiti teenage students have been warned that they could face the death penalty or heavy prison terms for certain crimes following the decision to lower the juvenile age from 18 to 16 in January.

With two days of meetings in the Kingdom of Swaziland, it ended the mission of Hands Off Cain in four African countries in view of the vote on the Resolution for the universal moratorium on executions at the General Assembly of the United Nations.