following the reported high-profile execution of Army chief Hyon Yong-chol, a source said a small number of follow-up purges had engulfed other top ranking officials who were close to Hyon.

At least four murder convicts were sent to the gallows in the jails of Lahore, Multan and Sahiwal, raising the total number of executions to 111 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

The Pinrang District Court of South Sulawesi has sentenced a couple, Amir alias Dawang, 45, and his wife Maemunah, 43, to death for selling drugs.

At least seven prisoners have been hanged in Iran in the last days.

On the first working day of the 9th session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) that opened in Hanoi,

"The abolition of the death penalty in Nebraska has a great political, legal and humanitarian value, because

Saudi Arabia has advertised for eight executioners. The eight positions, as advertised on the website of the

Nebraska's unicameral legislature passed a bill to repeal the state's death penalty.

Three convicts were executed in Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan jails, raising the total number of executions

Clifford O'Sullivan was just six when he appeared in a California court at the trial of his mother's killer, Mark Scott Thornton. He gave a stirring sentencing testimony during which he asked for the 'bad man' to be killed.

Two more death row prisoners have been sent to the gallows in different jails of the country early this morning, raising the total number of executions to 104 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre, Dunya News reported.