At least seven prisoners were hanged in Iran. Two of the executions were carried out in public.

Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail Sahiwal early the morning while execution of

Iran's Supreme Court annulled the death penalty for spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri and referred his

The North Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the historic rulings of a Cumberland County, N.C. trial

Japan executed two death row prisoners, including the nation's first of a condemned inmate sentenced by jurors, officials and media said, as campaigners called for the country to abolish capital punishment.

Three quarters of American executions in 2015 involved cases of "crippling disabilities and uncertain guilt,"

A 40-year-old man already convicted of killing a woman in Aichi Prefecture in 2007 was sentenced to death for a murder in 1998.

The use of the death penalty in the U.S. declined by virtually every measure in 2015.

Pyotr Ivanik, a Russian national, who has been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates, is currently

Zayed Yaslam Ali, an Emirati, was sentenced to death in absentia for joining a terrorist organisation, the Federal Supreme Court ruled.

A Saudi convicted of murder was executed in the eastern province of Ihsa, in the 151st death sentence