Saudi Arabia carried out its 80th beheading of the year, edging closer to the 87 executions it carried out during all of 2014.

Russia’s State Duma rejected in the first reading the initiative of member of the Liberal Democratic Party

Derrick Dewayne Charles, 32, Black, was executed. The sentence was carried out with a single lethal

The No. 2 leader of North Korea’s military was recently executed as a “traitor” for showing disrespect for its top leader, Kim Jong-un, South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers in Seoul.

14 prisoners were hanged in Iran between May 6 and 7 for drug related charges.

A Dhaka court awarded death penalty to two persons and life-term jail to one for killing an elderly couple in

Death-row prisoner Saulat Mirza was executed at Machh jail today at 4:30 AM for the murder of former KESC managing director Shahid Hamid, his driver and guard in 1997, raising the total number of executions to 101 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

the Juvenile Court sentenced two 16-year-old murder convicts to death.

Two Indonesians spared recently from the death penalty by a Malaysian court are slated to return soon to

A North Korean official denounced a report by South Korea's spy agency that leader Kim Jong Un had

Five prisoners were hanged in two different prisons in Iran in the morning.

Dr. Jay Chapman, the Oklahoma medical examiner who created the three-drug lethal injection protocol that