The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for more than fifteen years, was again confirmed in 2014 and the first six months of 2015.
Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens for drug trafficking, in the second execution after a pause for
A little over 22 years after the Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people in 1993, the lone convict on death row in the case – Yakub Abdul Razak Memon – was hanged at the Central Prison in the city of Nagpur.
At least four death row prisoners were executed in different cities of Punjab early in the morning.
The ruling of the Libyan court "Is the undesirable effect of the decision to intervene militarily in Libya, a
Eight more death row convicts were hanged in different jails of Punjab, including father and son.
A Saudi man on the death row for killing his relative was saved after the victim's father pardoned him just days before his execution.
Three murder convicts were hanged in Pakistan between July 27 and 28 as executions resumed following a one-month break during the holy month of Ramazan that ended last week.
A Libyan court sentenced Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, and eight others to death
Five men were hanged in Iran between July 25 and 26.
Saudi Arabia carried out its first execution in five weeks after a pause for Ramadan, beheading one of its citizens convicted of a double murder.
According to official reports, 12 prisoners were hanged to death in Iran.
