Nine years after participating in a bank robbery, a pastor, Adeniyi Matthew, an Evangelist, Akeem

Eight prisoners were hanged in three Iranian cities between 7 and 10 June, reported the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Saudi Arabia’s Justice Minister has defended tough Sharia punishments such as beheading, cutting off hands

China's supreme court annulled the death penalty for two men convicted of the rape of the daughter of a

in an interview posted on the ministry's official website, Foreign Minister Vladimir Makey said Belarusian

Three prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian prisons.

India will introduce a new anti-hijacking law to impose death penalty on hijackers, Xinhua news agency

Kuwait’s top court upheld a court sentence to execute an Ethiopian housemaid after she was convicted of

an anti-terrorism court in Karachi awarded capital punishment to the mastermind of the Pakistan Industrial

The death sentence passed by the Appeal Court on Royal Park murder case convict Jude Sharmantha

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced a wide-ranging amnesty, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term.

a Saudi court in Jeddah sentenced two people to death and jailed a third for 25 years after they were