Saudi Arabia has advertised for eight executioners. The eight positions, as advertised on the website of the

Nebraska's unicameral legislature passed a bill to repeal the state's death penalty.

Three convicts were executed in Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan jails, raising the total number of executions

Clifford O'Sullivan was just six when he appeared in a California court at the trial of his mother's killer, Mark Scott Thornton. He gave a stirring sentencing testimony during which he asked for the 'bad man' to be killed.

Two more death row prisoners have been sent to the gallows in different jails of the country early this morning, raising the total number of executions to 104 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre, Dunya News reported.

Five prisoners were hanged in two Iranian cities in the morning, reported Iranian state media.

A former Chinese police officer was sentenced to death for homicide, 17 years after the murdered woman's

On the sentencing to death of former President Morsi, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, Sergio D'Elia, said: "The death sentence of former President Morsi, the latest in a long line of hundreds in the last year have been imposed on members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Spiritual Guide Mohamed Badie, clearly appears as politically motivated.

About the news of the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, for his role in the 2013 bombing at the

A Muslim Brotherhood member was sentenced to death and three others to life for accusations of forming a "terror cell".

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy was sentenced by a Cairo court to death -- the latest judicial

six men with alleged ties to a terrorist group were hanged in a Cairo jail over violence that followed the 2013 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.