Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Yaqoob awarded death penalty to a man convicted of murder and sentenced his accomplice to life imprisonment in Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia carried out its 137th execution this year, putting to death another of its citizens for murder.

A Bogra court handed down death penalty to one Belal Hossain Bilu for hacking a businessman to death.

The Supreme Court of Thailand confirmed the death penalty for Anantasak Srisawat, alias Sor Tor Tai, for

Three persons including two brothers convicted over a murder in Kehelwatta, Kapuhena were sentenced to

The Arkansas Supreme Court says a lower-court judge overstepped his jurisdiction by halting the

Four murder convicts were hanged in the jails of Lahore, Bahawalpur, Toba Tek Singh and Dera Ghazi Khan while execution of two convicts was postponed.

A 32-year-old man was sentenced to death for setting two of his colleagues on fire, killing one of them.

Ohio won't attempt to execute anyone on its death row until at least 2017 as it faces a continuing shortage of lethal injection drugs.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Iran's execution of two minors last week,

Law and Order actors Sam Waterston and Joanna Merlin, along with several religious leaders, come together to support a death row inmate whose story has captured the nation's attention.

At least ten death row convicts were sent to the gallows in different jails of Punjab.