Switzerland and seven further states successfully presented to the UN Human Rights Council a resolution

President Pranab Mukherjee of India rejected the mercy petitions of Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli and

The Court of Appeal in Tanzania has reduced to five years imprisonment a death sentence earlier imposed

Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche the co-mastermind of the Nyanya Motor Park bombing, in which scores of citizens

According to a report released on July 16 by the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Justice,

A local court in Iran’s northern Mazandaran Province sentenced a 32-year-old defendant to death by

In separate incidents in a span of 24 hours, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) carried out executions

Two Singaporeans, Tang Hai Liang, 36, and Foong Chee Peng, 48, had their death sentences carried out

"The worldwide trend towards abolition of the death penalty in place in the world for over 15 years, was confirmed in 2013 and the first six months of 2014. In fact 161 countries, either by law or in practice, have decided to abolish, and only 37 countries still maintain the death penalty". This is what was pointed out by Elisabetta Zamparutti, treasurer of Hands Off Cain during the presentation of the Annual Report on the situation of the death penalty in the world prepared by the organization and published by "Reality Book.''

A 19-year-old man was sentenced to death by an Egyptian court on charges of sexual assault and murder

Federal judge vacates death sentence and rules death penalty unconstitutional in California. U.S. District

John Middleton, 54, White, was executed at about 8 p.m..