A tribunal in Bogra, Bangladesh, convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 1997 for
Saudi Arabia beheaded two Pakistanis for drug smuggling between 5 and 6 November.
A 56-year-old man, facing gallows for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl, has been spared death
A Kenyan Roman Catholic priest and four others were sentenced to death by a court in Nairobi for
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
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours