A prisoner identified as Nosrat Khazai was reportedly hanged at Ghazvin's central prison (northern Iran) on drug related charges.
Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who shot dead nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to death by a federal jury.
A sessions court in Tirunelveli has awarded death sentence to a couple for murdering a Dalit woman on
A death row prisoner was executed in Adiyala Jail over murdering two people who included a judge.
Two prisoners were hanged in public in the city of Sarpol-e Zahab (Kermanshah province, western Iran) on Moharebeh charges.
The Lagos State House of Assembly approved death penalty for offenders as it passed the anti-kidnapping Bill into law.
Bahrain’s Cassation Court upheld the death sentence for three people found guilty of killing UAE army
Ten persons were sentenced to death after being found guilty of two murders reported in Matara and Badulla.
Efforts to revive the death penalty in California were dealt another blow late last month when a state agency
An Army Corporal accused of murdering a four-year-old child was sentenced to death by firearm, the lawyer of the victim’s family confirmed.
State corrections officials have adopted a new lethal-injection procedure that includes a drug never before
Iran reportedly hanged three prisoners at Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj and one prisoner at Lakan central prison in Rasht.
