seven prisoners were executed by hanging in the courtyard of Vaki Abad prison in Mashhad for drug-

A Cairo court sentenced to death four members of the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood over the killing of

Arar newspaper said a Sri Lankan man on the death row converted to Islam after he was pardoned by the

An Ethiopian maid, Khadija bint Mohammed Isa, was beheaded in Hafar al-Batin, the interior ministry said.

Paul Goodwin, 48, White was executed in Missouri.

Robert Wayne Holsey, 49, black, was executed.

Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council, said that Iran is looking to end

Al-Shabaab militants executed by firing squad a woman accused of espionage, the Islamist group and a

Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Saudi drug trafficker, the 77th state execution in the oil-rich kingdom

An Egyptian court has sentenced to death seven men, including prominent Islamist militant Adel Habara,

South Korean newspaper The Dong-A Ilbo reported Park Sun-young, chairman of civic group Dream

China sentenced eight people to death for their roles in two knife and bomb attacks this spring in the