China handed down a suspended death sentence on a former railways minister for corruption, state media said, a case seen as a test of President Xi Jinping’s resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.

A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for killing a woman in 2015.

A Kenyan woman was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court after she was found guilty of trafficking in methamphetamine four years ago.

A Thai court sentenced two men to death for murdering another Thai man over his iPhone 7, a court official told dpa.

An Orange County jury voted 12-0 late Friday to recommend 30-year-old Juan Rosario be executed.

Circulating Hollywood movies or South Korean television dramas may be punishable by death in North Korea, although more North Koreans have access to media from the outside world.

The High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Oishee Rahman to life term imprisonment for killing her parents in 2013.

A Nebraska three-judge panel has voted to sentence Nikko Jenkins, 30, Black, to death.

An Egyptian court sentenced a man to death for raping a 20-month-old girl, in a case that sparked widespread public outrage, judicial sources told Reuters.

The Children's Court in Nyala sentenced the rapist and killer of a six-year-old girl to death by hanging. The victim was found tied-down in his shop, and was suffocated with napkins and biscuits.

Seven men have been sentenced to death for raping a disabled boy in Kuwait and threatening to leak footage of the horrifying assault on social media.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a statute denominated the "Fair Justice Act," which is designed to shorten the state death-penalty appeals process by requiring direct and post-conviction appeals to proceed simultaneously and provides capital appellants only six months to investigate and present post-conviction claims.