A Doha appeals court has upheld the death sentence given to two Indian men by the trial court for the

A court in Jessore sentenced two persons to death in the sensational Dr Shafiqul Islam murder case.

A Hamas-run military court sentenced three Gazans to death and three to prison, charging them with being informants for Israel.

Saudi authorities executed two men, bringing to 98 the number of executions carried out in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom so far this year.

Two murder convicts were hanged in the morning in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.

The Council of Europe warned Turkey that restoring capital punishment after an attempted coup would be

A Cairo criminal court handed death and life imprisonment sentences in absentia to nine members of the

Iran hanged 18 prisoners in two days, including two cases in public.

Saudi authorities executed a murderer in the holy city of Mecca, the first death sentence to be carried out

Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the death penalty might be re-introduced to deal with the instigators of the failed coup on the government.

Al-Shabaab fighters blamed for beheading of an elderly man at a small rural village in central Somalia,

John Wayne Conner, 60, White, was executed by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.