A court martial in Nigeria has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for mutiny, assault, cowardice and refusing to

the General Assembly of the United Nations advanced again its call to end the use of the death

two convicted terrorists were hanged in Pakistan just two days after the Nawaz Sharif government ended a

The United Nations agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s latest

the General Assembly of the United Nations advanced again its call to end the use of the death penalty with the passage of a new Resolution calling on States to establish a moratorium on executions, with a view to abolishing the practice. It was the fifth such text adopted since 2007.

Pakistan is preparing to execute 55 inmates on death row after the country ended the moratorium on the

President Mamnoon Hussain rejected appeal to mercy of 17 criminals convicted for death penalty.

Pakistan is preparing to execute 55 inmates on death row after the country ended the moratorium on the

Executions and new death sentences dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death

The Gwalior bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld the capital punishment awarded to a man by the

The South Sudanese army's court-martial sentenced one soldier to death for killing a colleague on ethnic