Kim Jong Un has reportedly issued instructions to government bodies including the Ministry of People’s Security to ban further public executions.

More than 60 years after the execution of alleged spy Ethel Rosenberg, a former governor of Massachusetts has endorsed a campaign to exonerate her.

Iranian regime executed four prisoners in Karaj Central Prison, west of Tehran, on drug related charges, reports indicate.

A businessman was sentenced to death by the High Court in Johor Baru after he was found guilty of drug distribution.

Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter Adel Habara, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance of militant threats to ignite "a volcano of jihad" across the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Romell Broom whose 2009 execution was called off after 2 hours during which he cried in pain while receiving 18 needle sticks.

Three persons including a most-wanted accused in at least 24 cases - including 16 murders - were

A court in Jeddah sentenced a housemaid to death for murdering the daughter of her employer and wounding another before trying to kill herself.

The parliament of Chad adopted a reform of its penal code which raises the legal marriage age from 16 to 18 and abrogates the death penalty.

Virginia prison officials have paid a secret compounding pharmacy $66,000 to obtain lethal injection drugs

Egypt's Court of Cassation rejected appeal submitted by militant Adel Habara against his death sentence over involvement in killing 25 soldiers in Rafah in 2013.

As Delaware's Supreme Court weighs whether 12 men sentenced to death should be spared from