Three people were sentenced to death by the Hambantota Provincial High Court on charges of having

An Indonesian court sentenced five people to death for possession of 26 kilograms of crystal

A court in the central province of Nghe An sentenced two people to death and another to life in prison for

Two prisoners sentenced to death for armed robbery and one prisoner sentenced to death for rape were

The Hiroshima High Court upheld the death penalty for a 66-year-old man convicted of killing five neighbors and setting fire to two of their homes in a remote community in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 2013.

Giza criminal court has sentenced a young man to death for killing his father.

The plenary of the House of Representatives approved a constitutional amendment to strike out a provision in the country`s supreme law that enabled the imposition of the death penalty.

Over 21 people have been convicted of killing people with albinism in Tanzania and sentenced to death.

Seven prisoners were executed at Bandar Abbas Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran) on

China strictly controls the death penalty and employs it with prudence, said a white paper on judical protection of human rights released by the State Council Information Office of China.

Iraqi authorities executed a Palestinian youth after accusing him of collaborating with armed groups in Iraq,

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), a prisoner from