A housewife and her cousin had their murder conviction upheld and were sentenced to death in Malaysia, in

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State granted pardon to three men awaiting execution to mark

A court in China's far west sentenced to death two teenagers for the killing of the head of the country's

Tennessee has to turn over the identities of executioners to attorneys representing 11 death row inmates

An Iranian woman due to be put to death for killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her is

The Madhya Pradesh High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to three people, including a 25-

Al-Shabaab militants stoned a woman to death in the southern town of Barawe after a court they had set up

the militant group Al-Shabaab executed four young men in the town of Barawe after alleging them to be

An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences for 20 Muslim Brotherhood members for burning a police

Three more prisoners were executed at the same time as Mohsen Amir Aslani who was hanged because of

Somalia’s Military Court sentenced three soldiers of the Armed Forces to death penalty after prosecuting

A Tunisian human rights group has urged the country's incoming parliament to abolish capital punishment