A Khartoum criminal court sentenced a police officer to death for killing Awadiya Ajabna on the outskirts of

A 34 year-old man has been sentenced to death in Kenya after he was found guilty of defiling a six year-old

A Chinese appeal court has upheld death sentences for three people convicted over a mass stabbing this

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has stopped the death sentence given to prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh

Authorities in Belarus executed a murder convict sentenced to death, reported the unregistered Vyasna (Spring) human rights center in Minsk.

Eleven Punjabi youths, lodged in Abu Dhabi jail for allegedly murdering a Pakistani, could evade capital

A Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Nigerian Army to stay execution on the death sentence passed

Iran's top human rights official responded to UN criticism of the death penalty in his country by saying 93

Saudi Arabia beheaded two prisoners convicted of drug smuggling, raising to 61 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year, according to an AFP tally.

A Chinese man who killed a two-year-old girl after a row with her mother over a parking space was

A 29-year-old Malaysian condemned to hang in 2009 for drug trafficking had his

Five prisoners were hanged in the prison of Rasht (Northern Iran) in the morning, reported the official