Director of Amnesty International Ghana, Lawrence Amesu, has revealed that close to 137 prisoners including three women are currently under death row awaiting execution.

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for three men found guilty of murdering the former mayor

High Court Judge of Hambantota, Ajith Masinha, sentenced to death three suspects in a murder case that

The death sentence for an unidentified 22-year-old prisoner, who was charged with the murder of a

Two Somali elders have been beheaded by jihadist group Al-Shabaab after they were abducted from their

An Egyptian court sentenced four people to death for alleged links with the Daesh militant group.

A Gazipur court found six people guilty in the 2008 murder of a man at the district’s Joydebpur.

Iraq hanged seven men of various Arab nationalities who were convicted of belonging to the Al-Qaeda network, officials said.

A leader and financial backer of the biggest Islamist party in Bangladesh was executed for war crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Hands Off Cain asks the Italian authorities not to grant extradition in the Islamic Republic of the blogger Mehdi Khosravi, also known as Yashar Parsa, born in Iran, but resident in the United Kingdom as a political refugee, arrested August 7 in Dorio, province of Lecco, while on vacation in Italy.

The Specialised Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia issued its initial judgement, in which a death penalty sentence

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is said to be strengthening his reign of terror.