between 1 and 4 January 2015, seventeen prisoners were executed in five different cities, including three in public.

Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the death sentences of the last 4 inmates remaining on death row, effectively ending capital punishment in the state.

Niaz Muhamamd, convicted of orchestrating murder attempt on former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, was hanged in Peshawar at Central Jail.

Federal Legislative Authority announced today the release of 3442 detainees for terrorist charges, who

The Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged a group of seven prisoners in the main prison in

Six people nabbed in a cross-border drug trafficking case in China, including one Japanese and two

Saudi Arabia beheaded a man in the southern Najran region for stabbing a relative to death, the interior ministry said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Pakistan to end capital punishment and restore a moratorium

seven prisoners convicted of drug related crimes were executed in the yard of Adelabad prison in Shiraz,

Japan’s prisons had 129 inmates on death row as of Dec 26, according to a Justice Ministry report.