A 23-year-old former nuclear physics student, Hesameddin Farzizadeh, was sentenced to death for

According to reports from inside Iran, 25 prisoners were collectively executed in Gohardash (Rajai Shahr)

Gregory Russeau, 45, Black, was executed for the May 2001 fatal beating of James Syvertson, 75, White, while on a crack binge.

a MP presented two draft Bills whose enactment would result in the repeal of the death sentence from

A Chinese woman was sentenced to death for killing two kindergarten pupils with poisonous snacks in

Al-Qaeda in Yemen executed two Saudi accused of spying for the United States, a day after the jihadist

six prisoners were hanged on charge of drug trafficking in the Central Prison of Orumieh, reported the

Another ten murder convicts were executed between 16 and 17 June in five different prisons of the country, raising the total number of executions to at least 181 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

A well-known Kurdish political prisoner was executed in Miandoab’s Prison, reported the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

one man charged of drug smuggling was hanged in public in the city of Sari, Iran’s Mehr news agency

Saudi Arabia beheaded two of its citizens for murder, taking to 102 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.

An Egyptian court upheld a death sentence handed to former President Mohammed Morsi -- the harshest ruling yet against Egypt's first democratically-elected president since he was overthrown by the military in 2013.