Pope Francis said that keeping inmates isolated in maximum security prisons is “a form of torture,” and called life sentences “a hidden death penalty” that should be abolished along with capital punishment.

Reprieve, the charity that campaigns against the death penalty, said Britain risks being “complicit in a gross

At least three Afghans were hanged to death in Iran over drugs smuggling charges, Afghan officials said.

The head of the Law Committee in Kurdistan Parliament, Valla Farid, told BasNews that there should be

Al-Shabaab militants in southern Somalia publicly stoned an 18-year-old boy to death after he was accused of rape. The teenager, named as Hassan Ahmed Ali, was accused of raping a 28-year-old woman at gunpoint and sentenced to death by a local judge, Al-Shabaab’s Radio Andalus reported.

the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a man and a woman were stoned to death for adultery in

eight inmates were hanged in Ghezel-Hessar Karaj Prison.

An Egyptian military court confirmed death sentences against seven Islamist militants convicted of attacking

The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced to death two men convicted of taking part in rioting in Al-

The High Court cannot impose the death penalty on murderers in Zimbabwe until the legislature enacts a law

A U.S.-based rights group says the number of executions carried out in China likely decreased by 20 percent in 2013.

A teenage boy identified as Fardin Jaffarian, 18, was hanged early in the morning in Tabriz Central prison,