The U.S. Supreme Court let stand the stays for Don Davis and Bruce Ward.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he could hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, after claiming victory in the vote on a new constitution that gives him greater powers, reported AFP.

Japan’s top court upheld the death sentence given to a 42-year-old woman for killing three men she met through an online dating service in the Tokyo area in 2009.

Arkansas plans to execute a record number of inmates this month but drug firms don't want their products used for the deaths.

A man convicted of murdering six people in a shooting spree was publicly executed in Iran, according to the Tasnim news agency.

Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo indicated that Indonesia would continue to execute convicts when he confirmed that the government would not implement a moratorium on the death penalty despite mounting calls from human rights groups.

The government hanged radical Islamist leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan, for his role in kick-starting militancy on Bangladesh’s soil.

Hundreds of families of prisoners on death row, especially women, rallied on the morning in front of parliament, demanding the abolition of the death penalty.

As many as 325 death row convicts are lodged in different jails across the country till 2016, the Lok Sabha was informed.

Two terrorists were sent to the gallows in High Security Prison Sahiwal in the morning.

China's horrifying use of the death penalty remains one of the country’s deadly secrets, as the authorities continue to execute thousands of people each year, Amnesty International said in its 2016 global review of the death penalty published today.