A Kuwaiti court of appeals sentenced a local man to death after he was convicted of raping an Asian

A Pakistan court has postponed the execution of a paraplegic prisoner, after human rights groups voiced concerns that his hanging would constitute "cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment."

At least four prisoners were hanged in Ghezelhesar prison in Karaj.

The Cassation Court in Jordan has upheld a September 2013 Criminal Court ruling sentencing a man to

So far in 2015, no one has been sentenced to death in Texas.

Three prisoners were hanged in Iran on September 16 and 19.

A division bench of the Lahore High Court has dismissed appeals of two brothers accused of blasphemy

Seven soldiers were executed by firing squad in the Southern strategic port town of Kismayo after a court

Egypt has seen 7 death sentences carried out and 246 overturned, with a further 433 still subject to appeal,

Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged a prisoner in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj, western Iran.

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo commuted a senior police officer's death sentence

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Richard Eugene Glossip after his