A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate was granted a retrial in Japan over multiple murders in 1966, decades after doubts emerged about his guilt.
A Dhaka court sentenced two kidnappers to death in absentia for killing a six years schoolboy after
Pakistan has suspended the implementation of the death sentence for an indefinite period, the country's Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Ali told the Parliament.
The President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, implicitly condemned the 529 death sentences handed down
A 21-year-old man who led a machete-armed gang that hacked off a woman's hand and violently robbed at
A janitor sentenced to death for raping a seven-year-old schoolgirl had his sentence upheld by the Appeals
Madras High Court upheld the death sentence awarded by a Mahila Court in Coimbatore in 2012 to a 27-
A Saudi man convicted of shooting dead a compatriot in a dispute was beheaded by the sword, the interior ministry said.
A court in Egypt sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a
The Matsue branch of the Hiroshima High Court upheld capital punishment for a woman convicted of killing
An Akure High Court sentenced three men to death by hanging over the alleged kidnapping and murder of
The Supreme People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City recently received the application of a 26-year-old
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
