Fahd bin Hussein Daghriri was executed in the region of Jazan for his role in the murder of a fellow Saudi

Indianapolis police said 45-year-old Paula Cooper was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound outside a residence on the city's north-west side.

Gov. Pete Ricketts vetoed a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state.

At least nine more murder convicts were sent to the gallows in Lahore, Vehari, Gujrat, Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Machh, raising the total number of executions to at least 131 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

Al-Shabaab militants shot dead in the public four people they accused of spying for their enemies in

Saudi Arabia executed three people, raising the total number of executions to at least 88 so far this year,

A Kuwaiti student escaped the death penalty after his victim’s family pardoned him.

Eleven death row prisoners were hanged for murder in Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Sargodha, Jhelum, Machh, Gujranwala, Sahiwal and Toba Tek Singh, raising the total number of executions to at least 122 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

China executed a man who stabbed a doctor to death over what he considered a botched nose operation,

One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ardebil (Northwestern Iran) in the morning, reported the Iranian state media.

The family of an Ethiopian maid tortured to death by her employers has spared her killers the death sentence.

following the reported high-profile execution of Army chief Hyon Yong-chol, a source said a small number of follow-up purges had engulfed other top ranking officials who were close to Hyon.