Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged a prisoner in southern Iran and transferred at least nine other death-row

Sri Lanka will not implement the death penalty temporarily as the country has decided to vote in favor of a UN resolution for moratorium on death penalty in 2015, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said in parliament.

A second juvenile is facing beheading in Saudi Arabia after a court upheld his conviction for a role in

The Supreme Court is starting a new term. The 9 justices are meeting in public Monday for the first hearing

Death row convict Muhammad Idrees was sent to the gallows at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore for killing a man in 1997.

Two were sentenced to death, two others to life in prison and a minor to a 10-year jail term for sabotage.

Masaru Okunishi, a death-row inmate who was seeking a retrial over a 1961 wine poisoning case, died at the Hachioji medical prison in western Tokyo. He was 89.

A triple murder convict named Muhammad Akram was executed in the Sahiwal Central Jail. He had killed his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law over a domestic feud in 2002.

Gov. Jay Nixon commuted the death sentence of Kimber Edwards to life without parole.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals halted 3 executions.

Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a petition with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals seeking an indefinite stay of all scheduled executions.

An Egyptian court sentenced 16 jihadists to death in a retrial on charges of killing 25 policemen in the Sinai