Two death sentences have been issued in Gaza in one week, PCHR reported.
Pakistan this morning reportedly executed Saqi Shah, who was arrested and convicted when he was 16 years old.
At least seven prisoners were hanged in Iran. Two of the executions were carried out in public.
Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail Sahiwal early the morning while execution of
Iran's Supreme Court annulled the death penalty for spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri and referred his
The North Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the historic rulings of a Cumberland County, N.C. trial
Japan executed two death row prisoners, including the nation's first of a condemned inmate sentenced by jurors, officials and media said, as campaigners called for the country to abolish capital punishment.
Three quarters of American executions in 2015 involved cases of "crippling disabilities and uncertain guilt,"
A 40-year-old man already convicted of killing a woman in Aichi Prefecture in 2007 was sentenced to death for a murder in 1998.
The use of the death penalty in the U.S. declined by virtually every measure in 2015.
Pyotr Ivanik, a Russian national, who has been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates, is currently
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
