A Cairo criminal court handed death and life imprisonment sentences in absentia to nine members of the

Iran hanged 18 prisoners in two days, including two cases in public.

Saudi authorities executed a murderer in the holy city of Mecca, the first death sentence to be carried out

Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the death penalty might be re-introduced to deal with the instigators of the failed coup on the government.

Al-Shabaab fighters blamed for beheading of an elderly man at a small rural village in central Somalia,

John Wayne Conner, 60, White, was executed by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.

The Niger State House of Assembly passed into law the criminalization of kidnapping and cattle rustling, the

Death-row convict Maku Rabi Das was executed inside Sylhet Central Jail by hangman Raju who was

Iraqi President Fuad Masoum has approved a decision to carry out death sentences for a number of

Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged nine prisoners collectively in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran.

Canadians are more forward-thinking than Americans on a vast range of social issues, but not on death

A court in the central province of Nghe An handed down a death penalty and a life sentence to two Lao