Nine people have been sentenced to death in Kano State by a Sharia Court of Appeal in Rijiyar Lemo for

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole formally sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to 6 death sentences for the April 15, 2013, bomb at the Boston Marathon.

Executions in Louisiana are on hold for at least a year because the state doesn't have the drugs needed to put inmates to death, according to a court filing.

Japan executed a man who robbed and killed a woman after plotting the crime with accomplices he met online.

In Zimbabwe, a High Court judge has sent a man to the gallows for ripping open an 83

Bangladesh`s highest court upheld the death sentence against the country`s second highest ranked Islamist

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has confirmed death sentences for two suspected Saudi Al-Qaeda members

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, asked on June 20 for Dylann Roof to be given the death penalty.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, says people

A Filipina who was saved from the death penalty in Kuwait is set to arrive in the Philippines in the afternoon

At least five prisoners were executed at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj for drug-related crimes, reported the