between 1 and 4 January 2015, seventeen prisoners were executed in five different cities, including three in public.
Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the death sentences of the last 4 inmates remaining on death row, effectively ending capital punishment in the state.
Niaz Muhamamd, convicted of orchestrating murder attempt on former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, was hanged in Peshawar at Central Jail.
Federal Legislative Authority announced today the release of 3442 detainees for terrorist charges, who
The Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged a group of seven prisoners in the main prison in
Six people nabbed in a cross-border drug trafficking case in China, including one Japanese and two
Saudi Arabia beheaded a man in the southern Najran region for stabbing a relative to death, the interior ministry said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Pakistan to end capital punishment and restore a moratorium
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
