A former Mungiki member who converted to Islam and trained with Al Shabaab has been sentenced to

Two men were sentenced to death in Kenya for robbery with violence.

A primary urban court in southern Helmand province sentenced a man to death for killing his wife.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced one defendant to death and another to life in prison, for forming a

During a recent meeting of “peace and reconciliation” between prisoners in Isfahan’s central prison and a

Lawmakers submitted a bipartisan bill to the National Assembly proposing to abolish the death penalty,

Kester Ng Wei Ren, a heroin trafficker who has been on death row for more than four years, failed in his

Gambia's president granted amnesty to 85 prisoners including a former police official accused of participating in a coup attempt in 2009, state media said.

In Zambia, the Kabwe High Court sentenced to death a 34-year-old polygamist of Mumbwa who strangled

Jaffna High Court has sentenced three individuals to death, Police Media Unit said.

New analysis released today by NGO Iran Human Rights shows that over two thirds of the 570 people so far executed in Iran this year were sentenced to death on drugs charges.

Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania's High Court after being found