Mohamed Badie, top leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was sentenced to life in jail along

An Afghan appeals court sentenced five men to death for armed robbery and sexual assault for an attack on

A Saudi and an Iraqi convicted of murder and a Saudi convicted of drugs trafficking were beheaded in Riyadh, the interior ministry said.

A 60-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man were hanged in the prison of Rasht for drug trafficking, reported the Iranian State Broadcasting IRIB.

Three people have been condemned to death and one given life in prison for a mass stabbing that killed 31

Newly appointed Justice Minister Midori Matsushima backed the death penalty as a deterrent against crime

At least nine prisoners including two women were hanged between 10 and 11 September in two Iranian

The Supreme Court of Indonesia decided to uphold the death sentence for Freddy Budiman, a convicted

The Chadian government adopted on September 5 a penal code aimed at abolishing the death penalty, Minister of Communication and government spokesman Hassan Sylla Bakari announced after an inter-ministerial meeting held in N’Djamena.

Willie Tyrone Trottie, 45, Black, was executed.

Two men were hanged in public in the city of Hamedan (Western Iran) early in the morning, reported the

A higher court in central China's Hunan Province overturned a death sentence for 2 men convicted of raping