The United States Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to Ernest Johnson on Tuesday evening, just
Four death row prisoners were hanged in the morning in the jails of Kasur and Gujrat. The dead bodies of the prisoners were handed over to their families, Dunya News reported.
Pakistan anti-terrorism court has awarded death penalty to a teenager and life imprisonment to two others for brutally murdering a minor after sexually assaulting him.
Two prisoners, both reportedly 30 years old, were hanged in public in Aliabad-e Katul (a city located in the province of Golestan) early in the morning.
Saudi Arabia executed one of its citizens after he was convicted of running over and killing a fellow tribesman, the interior ministry said.
Saudi Arabia carried out its 141st execution this year, putting one of its citizens to death for murder.
A member of the Kuwaiti royal family and his fellow student have escaped the death penalty in a high-profile
Pakistan executed a man convicted of murder in Sahiwal, Samaa reported.
A Taiwan court upheld the death sentence for Cheng Chieh, who was convicted of four murders and
Hillary Clinton affirmed her support for the death penalty in limited circumstances during an appearance
Jerry Correll, 59, White, was executed in Florida.
Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger and activist sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, won the EU’s Sakharov prize for human rights.
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