The 9th annual report of the organization Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty in Iran shows that in 2016 at least 530 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Philippine House of Representatives approved a bill to restore the death penalty by hanging, lethal injection or firing squad for drug offenses despite opposition from the influential Roman Catholic church and human rights groups.

Kidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable with death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed Abdullahi signed into law a bill in that direction.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty as

The New Taipei City District Court handed the death sentence to a man accused of committing arson last year, killing six people in an old apartment building.

The Court of Appeal confirmed the death sentence imposed on a chef by the Mombasa High Court on

At least seven prisoners were executed in Iran on murder, drug related charges.

Jordan executed 15 people including 10 convicted on terrorism charges ranging from an attack a decade ago on Western tourists to the slaying of a writer, a judicial source and the government spokesman Mohammad al Momani said.

The Appeals Court announced its decision to uphold the death sentences for two migrant workers - Zaw

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) signed orders on February 27 for an unprecedented eight executions to be carried out over a period of ten days in April.

An inmate was sent to the gallows in Bandar Abbas Central Prison, southern Iran.

A Pakistani court freed an Islamic preacher who was sentenced to death four years ago on charges of blasphemy, a defense lawyer said.