Iran reportedly hanged three prisoners at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj and one prisoner at Lakan central prison in Rasht.

Citing "serious concerns about the use of capital punishment in the state of Washington," Governor Jay Inslee granted a reprieve to Clark Richard Elmore, whom the state's Department of Corrections had scheduled for execution on January 19, 2017, and urged the state legislature to abolish capital punishment in the state.

A Doha Criminal Court has convicted five expatriate men for engaging in illicit drugs smuggling and sentenced their leader to death by hanging.

A court in Kuwait sentenced a couple to death after finding them guilty of torturing their three-year-old daughter until she died, it said in a statement.

The highest court of Qatar upheld death penalties awarded to two labourers from Tamil Nadu and

Hundreds of people have marched on Tehran's Evin Prison to demand the release of a student activist who has been on hunger strike for 71 days.

The Ndola High Court has found former minister of Defence George Mpombo’s 17-year-old son guilty of shooting dead his pregnant girlfriend and beheading her.

Six defendants involved in Viet Nam’s biggest drug trafficking case were sentenced to death by the People’s Court of the northern Quang Ninh Province.

The Iraqi authorities executed 88 terrorists convicts in 2016, despite the international calls to stop this punishment in this country.

A man convicted of setting a bus on fire two years ago was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Two former Pennsylvania death row prisoners who have asserted their innocence for decades, Tyrone Moore and James Dennis, pled no contest to lesser charges.

According to eyewitnesses, flogging punishment of a young man charged with theft, and whose identity is