six prisoners were executed in Iran between August 29 and September 1st.
The state of North Carolina sought to make amends, awarding each man $750,000 for the time they spent
two Pakistani citizens were beheaded in the last days in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking, bringing to 129
Roderick Nunley, 50, Black, was executed for the for the March 22, 1989 kidnapping, rape and stabbing
The Law Commission is set to recommend abolition of death penalty in India except for terror convicts,
the European Union called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to re-instate a moratorium on
At least 9 prisoners were hanged in Pakistan in the last three weeks.
Chad has executed 10 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram by firing squad, a day after they were sentenced on terrorism charges, security sources said.
Saudi Arabia put to death two Ethiopians, a Pakistani and a Saudi, bringing to 114 the total number of executions this year, according to AFP tallies.
Four prisoners were hanged in the prison of Yazd (Central Iran), reported the official website of the Iranian
Authorities in Iran sentenced a young man to be blinded.
Three more death row prisoners were sent to the gallows in different jails of Punjab on early morning,
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
