Masaru Okunishi, a death-row inmate who was seeking a retrial over a 1961 wine poisoning case, died at the Hachioji medical prison in western Tokyo. He was 89.
A triple murder convict named Muhammad Akram was executed in the Sahiwal Central Jail. He had killed his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law over a domestic feud in 2002.
Gov. Jay Nixon commuted the death sentence of Kimber Edwards to life without parole.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals halted 3 executions.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a petition with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals seeking an indefinite stay of all scheduled executions.
An Egyptian court sentenced 16 jihadists to death in a retrial on charges of killing 25 policemen in the Sinai
Alfredo Prieto was executed today after a series of last-minute appeals failed.
An Iranian man who was on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad has had his sentence
4 p.m. Gov. Mary Fallin has granted a last-minute stay for Glossip who was set to be executed Wednesday afternoon.
A former Al-Shabaab fighter who has surrendered himself to the Somali government in the beginning of this year was on September 29
A Mumbai court has awarded capital punishment to five convicts in 2006 Mumbai local train serial blasts in
Two death row convicts were hanged in the Central Jail of Faisalabad. Shoukat and Ikhlaq had killed two
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
