presidential spokesman Charles Chen cited President Ma Ying-jeou as saying that the government was

The fatal shooting Tuesday of Paula Cooper, the woman who once was the youngest person in America

a double murder convict was sent to the gallows in the District Jail of Sargodha.

three prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian cities, reported the Iranian state media.

Emmanuel Uduaghan , the Governor of the Delta State, granted total pardon to Moses Akatugba who was

Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Pakistani drug trafficker, adding to what a United Nations rapporteur

Three men were hanged in public in Mashhad (northeastern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.

Supreme Court has said that execution of death row convicts cannot be carried out in an arbitrary, hurried

the Algiers Criminal Court has handed down death sentences to 12 people and condemned two others to

Nine more death row prisoners were hanged in seven jails of Pakistan between May 27 and 28.

At least twenty-two prisoners were executed at the Ghezelhesar prison in Karaj between 24 and 25 May, Iran Human Rights reported.

After three years of work, the proposed amendments to the Penal Code were validated in a ceremony held