China has sentenced the former Communist Party boss from the southwestern province of Yunnan to death
Ghana's 43 prisons are designed to accommodate 9,875 prisoners but are currently holding 13,685 prisoners.
The Iranian authorities must urgently halt their plans to execute Zeinab Sekaanvand, a 22-year-old Iranian-
A woman who was charged with selling illicit liquor that caused the death of eight people in Ruiru, five years ago has been sentenced to death.
Legislators said their hands are tied over abolition of death penalty in Zimbabwe, saying scrapping the
Two prisoners were hanged in the Parsilon Prison of Khorramabad (Lorestan Province, western Iran),
A court in the Gaza Strip sentenced a Palestinian man to death by hanging, after convicting him in the
The Criminal Court of Buram in South Darfur sentenced three men to death for armed robbery, murder, and grievous bodily harm.
An Egyptian court sentenced an Islamist to death by hanging and eight others to life in prison on charges of
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the World Day against the Death Penalty,
On World Day against the death penalty, Hands Off Cain sounded the alarm on the rise in the number of executions and death sentences in the name of the war on terrorism.
Government feedback agency Reach released a survey, which found that 80 per cent of Singapore residents
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
