The California Supreme Court has halted implementation of a voter-approved measure intended to speed up the appeals process for Death Row inmates.

Jordan's Deputy Director General of the State Security Court sentenced the killer of writer Nahed Hattar to death by hanging, al-Ghad newspaper reported.

The ISIS terrorist group has executed an Iraqi teenager in southern Kirkuk, after accusing him of spying for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, local sources reported.

Today the international community firmly denounced a wide range of human rights violations in Iran.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly awarded $22 million in damages to Nathson Fields, who was wrongfully convicted of a gang-related murder and sentenced to death in 1986.

A prisoner sentenced to death on drug related charges was reportedly executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran), according to close sources.

The General Assembly of the United Nations confirmed the demand for an end to the death penalty by the vote of a new resolution calling on states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the practice. This is the sixth pro-moratorium text adopted since 2007.

An NIA court sentenced to death banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal and four

The website of the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported about the execution of one

After languishing in jail for 14 years, waiting for a death penalty, an Emirati walked free recently as the court

Saudi national Majid bin Abdulla bin Humood Al-Otaibi was executed in Riyadh for murdering a compatriot after a heated argument.

The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that everyone on death row in the state will be re-sentenced to life without parole. The case is Powell v. State.