Saudi Arabia executed a citizen for murder, bringing to 85 the number of people the ultra-conservative

Iran's regime hanged two more prisoners, this time in the Central Prison in Mashhad, north-east Iran. The

A supermarket worker who killed a payroll manager in a row over wages has been sentenced to death in the UAE.

World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment.

Iran's fundamentalist regime has hanged four prisoners in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, central Iran, and another four in Orumieh, north-west Iran.

As many as eight people were sentenced to death in West Bengal for the murder of college student Saurabh Chowdhury in 2014.

A Gazan military court sentenced five men to death, charging them with being informants for Israel.

Indonesia's president is defending his country's use of the death penalty for drug offenses, arguing that drug

The death penalty will be applicable to corrupt leaders who embezzle funds or accept bribes of over $463,000, China’s Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Prosecutor’s Office, the country’s highest judicial authorities, ruled.

The Pakistani president rejected as many as 513 mercy petitions of condemned prisoners over the last five

Three women were executed on the same day in Iran.

The Dutch branch of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reprimanded