3 Kurds and an Iranian citizen were executed in the Urmia city of East Kurdistan.

Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was awarded death sentence for committing crimes against

The European Union has demanded Pakistan to abolish the death penalty by retaining a moratorium on

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in the morning a prisoner

South Korea's Yonhap News agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had purged about 10 officials of his ruling Workers’ Party for watching South Korean soap operas. Yonhap did not specify how or when the action was taken.

Two men convicted of murdering a journalist and a security official were executed in public in Somalia's

Chinese lawmakers are considering removing the death penalty as punishment for nine crimes, including

6 prisoners in Adelabad prison, Shiraz, and 2 prisoners in Shahab prison, Kerman, were executed by hanging.

A 26- year old woman charged with murder was hanged in Iran early morning, Tehran Prosecutor’s Office said, Iranian ISNA news agency reported.

One of three cousins accused of killing an Omani during a hunting trip in the desert had his death sentence