The Higher People's Court of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region rejected the appeal of an
Eight prisoners sentenced to death for murder and Moharebeh (enmity against God) charges were
The leader of an Indonesian gang who murdered and gang-raped a schoolgirl was sentenced to death.
three prisoners were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking and murder.
The High Court in Kenya has ruled that the mandatory death sentence in relation to capital offence is unconstitutional.
The Khartoum North Criminal Court sentenced 18 people to death for their part in a 2014 tribal clash. The
Dozens of South Sudanese soldiers were sentenced to death over abuses committed during the renewed
The military court, headed by General Khalil Ibrahim, sentenced to death both Shadi Mawlawi and Jalal
17 prisoners sentenced to death on drug related charges were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison (Razavi Khorasan province, northwestern Iran).
An international rights group says Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty against a mentally
Five prisoners were reportedly hanged in Iran on drug charges between September 24 and 25.
Saudi Arabia executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing a Saudi child, the interior ministry said.
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
