Federal judge James Brady delayed for 18 months proceedings on the constitutionality of Louisiana's death penalty procedures, as well as the execution of Christopher Sepulvado.
Two Iranian men were publicly hanged in Iran's southern city of Shiraz in the morning.
A death row prisoner involved in killing three persons over a property dispute was executed in
A court in Yei River County sentenced a 26 year old man to death by hanging, for killing a Boda-boda rider
A special tribunal sentenced a person to death while two others to life in prison for crimes committed during
Iran’s fundamentalist regime has hanged a man and a woman in a prison in Qazvin, north-west of Tehran.
Hands Off Cain asks the Italian Government to take a stand on yet another anti-Semitic event staged by the
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death 14 of its citizens for terrorism in the Shi'ite Muslim minority
death row inmate Patrick Gabaakanye was hanged at Gaborone Central Prison, according to a statement
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has granted a presidential pardon for 608 inmates from Prisons
A death convict Hamed Akhtar was hanged to death in Sahiwal while security was tightened in and out
Security forces from the Islamist group Hamas executed three convicted Palestinians at dawn, a move
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
