Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council, said that Iran is looking to end

Al-Shabaab militants executed by firing squad a woman accused of espionage, the Islamist group and a

Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Saudi drug trafficker, the 77th state execution in the oil-rich kingdom

An Egyptian court has sentenced to death seven men, including prominent Islamist militant Adel Habara,

South Korean newspaper The Dong-A Ilbo reported Park Sun-young, chairman of civic group Dream

China sentenced eight people to death for their roles in two knife and bomb attacks this spring in the

Saudi Arabia executed a Syrian convicted of drug smuggling, bringing to 75 the number of locals and

A court in central Vietnam sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a 16-year old girl two years

A Saudi court sentenced a Saudi citizen to death for helping al-Qaeda carry out terrorist attacks in the

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo ordered the execution of five death-row drug convicts this month, a move

China has promised to stop harvesting organs from executed prisoners by 1 January, state media report.

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans court has stayed the execution of Scott Panetti in a