A Bahraini appeals court upheld death sentences for three Shiites convicted of killing three policemen in a
Twenty-six people were sentenced to death and 21 to life in prison for involvement in tribal violence in
A court in Bangladesh awarded death sentence to a woman for killing her husband.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court released its judgement confirming capital punishment for a top Islamist leader
According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, two Afghan prisoners were hanged in a prison in
A Lebanese military judge sentenced 106 men to death over the 2014 clashes between the army and
Federal judge James Brady delayed for 18 months proceedings on the constitutionality of Louisiana's death penalty procedures, as well as the execution of Christopher Sepulvado.
Two Iranian men were publicly hanged in Iran's southern city of Shiraz in the morning.
A death row prisoner involved in killing three persons over a property dispute was executed in
A court in Yei River County sentenced a 26 year old man to death by hanging, for killing a Boda-boda rider
A special tribunal sentenced a person to death while two others to life in prison for crimes committed during
Iran’s fundamentalist regime has hanged a man and a woman in a prison in Qazvin, north-west of Tehran.
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