The Kiribati parliament has passed the first reading of the amendment to the penal code to adopt the death

Saudi authorities have executed four citizens in the last days, after they were convicted of murder in separate

the Iranian regime's authorities hanged a group of eight prisoners in the main prison of Bandar Abbas,

Egypt's Grand Mufti has commuted the death sentence handed to the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader,

Japan executed two multiple killers, bringing to 11 the total number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.

in a 45-page report issued in Geneva, UN investigators said the Syrian government and Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents were both committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.