For the first time in 22 years, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), by a majority ruling,

The district sessions court in Kasaragod, state of Kerala, has awarded death sentence to K.C. Hamsa,

Official sources in Iran have reported on the public execution of a prisoner in Mahvelat County. The

The United Arab Emirates announced new legislation imposing harsh sentences including the death penalty for crimes related to religious hatred and Sunni extremism.

A 22-year-old man, David Idah, was sentenced to death by hanging for killing a retired chief magistrate in Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Timeyin.

The president visited the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, a complex which includes sections of buildings separated by large green yards and barbed wire fences.

According to official reports by state run media Hamshahri Online, two prisoners who were sentenced to

Two people convicted of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in Mauritania were given the death

Glenford Baptist, 44, has a new lease on life after being told this morning that his sentence of death by hanging will be commuted.

Zimbabwe no longer has female prisoners on death row in compliance with the new constitution.

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu reduced the sentence of 332 prisoners awaiting death by hanging to life imprisonment to ease maximum security prison congestion.

A Bangladeshi special court handed down the latest in a line of death sentences to a former political