Jaffna High Court has sentenced three individuals to death, Police Media Unit said.

New analysis released today by NGO Iran Human Rights shows that over two thirds of the 570 people so far executed in Iran this year were sentenced to death on drugs charges.

Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania's High Court after being found

Nationwide, police have shot and killed 462 people in the first six months of 2015, according to Washington Post data.

In what is set to evoke a worldwide condemnation, a court in Afghanistan has quashed the death sentences

Michelle Byrom - who came close to being the 1st woman executed in Mississippi since World War II –

The Iranian regime has sentenced prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri to execution. He is the

Islamic State (IS) has beheaded two women in eastern Syria, the first time the jihadist group has

About the news of the rejection 5/4 by the US Supreme Court of the appeals on the constitutionality of one

President John Mahama has freed some 900 prisoners ahead of tomorrow’s Republic Day holiday.

10 prisoners that have been detained in Zahedan Central Prison (southeastern Iran) for three years in a

The last death sentence in Texas dates back to Dec. 17, 2014.