Gambia's president granted amnesty to 85 prisoners including a former police official accused of participating in a coup attempt in 2009, state media said.
In Zambia, the Kabwe High Court sentenced to death a 34-year-old polygamist of Mumbwa who strangled
Jaffna High Court has sentenced three individuals to death, Police Media Unit said.
New analysis released today by NGO Iran Human Rights shows that over two thirds of the 570 people so far executed in Iran this year were sentenced to death on drugs charges.
Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania's High Court after being found
Nationwide, police have shot and killed 462 people in the first six months of 2015, according to Washington Post data.
In what is set to evoke a worldwide condemnation, a court in Afghanistan has quashed the death sentences
Michelle Byrom - who came close to being the 1st woman executed in Mississippi since World War II –
The Iranian regime has sentenced prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri to execution. He is the
Islamic State (IS) has beheaded two women in eastern Syria, the first time the jihadist group has
About the news of the rejection 5/4 by the US Supreme Court of the appeals on the constitutionality of one
President John Mahama has freed some 900 prisoners ahead of tomorrow’s Republic Day holiday.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
