Thailand deported more than 100 Uighurs back to China, ignoring concerns that the ethnic minority faces persecution by the Chinese government, while protesters in Turkey, which had accepted an earlier batch of refugees, ransacked the Thai Consulate.

Former Gov. George Ryan, whose moratorium laid the groundwork for ending the death penalty in Illinois during Gov. Pat Quinn's administration, has formed a not-for-profit organization called “Abolition Now” to battle executions nationwide.

A 59-year-old man who, out of jealousy, murdered his girlfriend at Atwima Techiman was sentenced to

The RAK (Ras al-Khaima) Court of Cassation has upheld an earlier death sentence passed against a

An Iraqi court sentenced 24 people to death over the killing of hundreds of soldiers at a former U.S. military

Daily NK, an online newspaper focusing on issues relating to North Korea, said the manager of a terrapin farm had been executed after Kim Jong-un made his field guidance tour in May to the farm near Taedong River in Pyongyang.

A former Mungiki member who converted to Islam and trained with Al Shabaab has been sentenced to

Two men were sentenced to death in Kenya for robbery with violence.

A primary urban court in southern Helmand province sentenced a man to death for killing his wife.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced one defendant to death and another to life in prison, for forming a

During a recent meeting of “peace and reconciliation” between prisoners in Isfahan’s central prison and a

Lawmakers submitted a bipartisan bill to the National Assembly proposing to abolish the death penalty,