Three quarters of American executions in 2015 involved cases of "crippling disabilities and uncertain guilt,"
A 40-year-old man already convicted of killing a woman in Aichi Prefecture in 2007 was sentenced to death for a murder in 1998.
The use of the death penalty in the U.S. declined by virtually every measure in 2015.
Pyotr Ivanik, a Russian national, who has been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates, is currently
Zayed Yaslam Ali, an Emirati, was sentenced to death in absentia for joining a terrorist organisation, the Federal Supreme Court ruled.
A Saudi convicted of murder was executed in the eastern province of Ihsa, in the 151st death sentence
As many as three death row inmates were hanged in two Punjab cities early this morning as the country
A Beijing court has recommended that the death sentence for the wife of fallen Politburo member Bo Xilai
Eight death row prisoners were hanged on early morning in the jails of Attock, Bahawalpur, Multan,
Iran hanged a 20-year-old man in public in the city of Noshahr, northern Iran.
Three prisoners have been hanged in Iran in the last days.
A Chinese medical student who murdered his roommate at a prestigious Shanghai university by poisoning a drinking water dispenser was executed, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
