Al-Shabaab militants in southern Somalia publicly stoned an 18-year-old boy to death after he was accused of rape. The teenager, named as Hassan Ahmed Ali, was accused of raping a 28-year-old woman at gunpoint and sentenced to death by a local judge, Al-Shabaab’s Radio Andalus reported.

the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a man and a woman were stoned to death for adultery in

eight inmates were hanged in Ghezel-Hessar Karaj Prison.

An Egyptian military court confirmed death sentences against seven Islamist militants convicted of attacking

The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced to death two men convicted of taking part in rioting in Al-

The High Court cannot impose the death penalty on murderers in Zimbabwe until the legislature enacts a law

A U.S.-based rights group says the number of executions carried out in China likely decreased by 20 percent in 2013.

A teenage boy identified as Fardin Jaffarian, 18, was hanged early in the morning in Tabriz Central prison,

the United Nations said Iraq should stop its widespread use of the death penalty, which is unjust, flawed

four men were executed for drug-related charges in the main prison of Rasht, reported the official website of

"Hands Off Cain denies being the source of the news that the national football team of North Korea would be sent to jail and threatened with execution for a loss with the team in South Korea. The source of the news is the site nationalreport.com, that for its October 6 article made reference to an article published by the Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper controlled by the North Korean regime.

A Pakistani court upheld the death penalty for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010.