Mongolia’s parliament became the latest to consign the death penalty to the history books, in a major victory for human rights in the country.
Egypt’s Court of Cassation withdrew the death sentences issued to Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide
A Sudanese court could sentence 27 Muslims to death for believing in a strand of Islam that’s considered
The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) threw two Syrian men off the top of a building in Palmyra city in
Donnis Musgrove, 67, White, an Alabama death row prisoner with a substantial claim of innocence, died of
Four people were sentenced to death in north China's Shanxi Province for murder, fraud and blackmail in a
A Chinese national was sentenced to death by hanging after she was found guilty of trafficking drugs into
Four prisoners were hanged in Iran on November 28 and 30.
Four convicted terrorists were sent to the gallows for their involvement in the Army Public School (APS) massacre in Peshawar last December in which over 150 people, mostly children, lost their lives.
A young prisoner charged with rape was hanged to death in public in Meyami, Semnan.
Altogether twenty-nine people were sentenced to death in seven separate murder cases in six districts in Bangladesh.
Lawyers for capital defendants and death row inmates across the country have begun to respond to what
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
