Shafqat Hussain, who was awarded a death sentence for kidnapping and later killing a seven-year-old boy,

Saudi Arabia beheaded five prisoners between July 29 and August 3, bringing to 110 the total number of

According to official and unofficial reports, a total of seven prisoners were hanged in Iran on July 29 and August 1st.

Five murder convicts were executed in two jails across Punjab.

Martin O'Malley unveiled his proposals for overhauling the nation's criminal justice system

The slight increase in executions in 2014 as compared to 2013 is explained by increases recorded in Iran

The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for more than fifteen years, was again confirmed in 2014 and the first six months of 2015.

Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens for drug trafficking, in the second execution after a pause for

A little over 22 years after the Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people in 1993, the lone convict on death row in the case – Yakub Abdul Razak Memon – was hanged at the Central Prison in the city of Nagpur.

At least four death row prisoners were executed in different cities of Punjab early in the morning.

The ruling of the Libyan court "Is the undesirable effect of the decision to intervene militarily in Libya, a

Eight more death row convicts were hanged in different jails of Punjab, including father and son.