A majority of Americans prefer life without parole to the death penalty, according to the 2015 American Values Survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.

One thousand, six hundred and thirty-nine condemned inmates are awaiting execution in the nation’s prisons, the Controller-General of Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Dr. Peter Ekpendu, said.

A local court in Odisha’s Keonjhar district pronounced death sentence to five accused in the rape and

Two prisoners were hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on drug related charges, a reliable source said.

A man was sentenced to death on charges of murder in Belarus, the only nation in Europe that still has capital punishment.

The Iraqi Central Criminal Court announced the death verdict against three convicts who were charged of killing the Iraqi journalist Nadhim Na'eem al-Qaisi.

According to confirmed sources, Iranian authorities executed at least 5 prisoners.

Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders on charges of war crimes during the country's 1971 independence war, a senior jail official said, despite concerns that the legal proceedings against them were flawed and threats of violence by their supporters.

A court has condemned three Tunisian jihadists to death, including two tried in absentia, for the murder of a

The Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, has granted clemency to four prisoners on death row

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith,

Marcus Ray Johnson, 50, White, was executed in Georgia.