the Mumbai Mirror said two sisters from Kolhapur in Maharashtra State, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, are likely to become the first ever women in India to be hanged after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected their mercy pleas late July.

in a poll conducted to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s last legal executions, 45 percent of Brits said murderers should face the death penalty.

a federal judge has extended a temporary moratorium on executions in Ohio until 15 January 2015 to allow more time for the state to implement a new lethal-injection procedure.