Emmanuel Uduaghan , the Governor of the Delta State, granted total pardon to Moses Akatugba who was
Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Pakistani drug trafficker, adding to what a United Nations rapporteur
Three men were hanged in public in Mashhad (northeastern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.
Supreme Court has said that execution of death row convicts cannot be carried out in an arbitrary, hurried
the Algiers Criminal Court has handed down death sentences to 12 people and condemned two others to
Nine more death row prisoners were hanged in seven jails of Pakistan between May 27 and 28.
At least twenty-two prisoners were executed at the Ghezelhesar prison in Karaj between 24 and 25 May, Iran Human Rights reported.
After three years of work, the proposed amendments to the Penal Code were validated in a ceremony held
With a vote to override a veto by Gov. Pete Ricketts, the Nebraska Legislature repealed the death penalty in the state.
Fahd bin Hussein Daghriri was executed in the region of Jazan for his role in the murder of a fellow Saudi
Indianapolis police said 45-year-old Paula Cooper was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound outside a residence on the city's north-west side.
Gov. Pete Ricketts vetoed a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state.
