The Supreme Court of India ruled that review petitions against verdicts upholding death sentences will now
The High Criminal Appeals Court upheld the death sentence given to a Bahraini man convicted in
The Kiribati parliament has passed the first reading of the amendment to the penal code to adopt the death
Saudi authorities have executed four citizens in the last days, after they were convicted of murder in separate
the Iranian regime's authorities hanged a group of eight prisoners in the main prison of Bandar Abbas,
Egypt's Grand Mufti has commuted the death sentence handed to the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader,
Japan executed two multiple killers, bringing to 11 the total number of death sentences carried out since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.
in a 45-page report issued in Geneva, UN investigators said the Syrian government and Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents were both committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
