Today were opened in Cotonou, capital of Benin, the three days works of the Continental Conference on the Abolition of the death penalty in Africa convened by the local government with the Commission on Human Rights and Peoples of the African Union in collaboration with Hands Off Cain and the Nonviolent Radical Party.

Italy is taking forward the battle for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. Today at the Farnesina, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini chaired the first meeting of the task force that will coordinate Italy’s action in the run-up to the United Nations vote on a new resolution.

Ten prisoners were hanged in the city of Urumieh, in northwestern Iran.

Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has upheld the death sentence for a defendant who killed a Lebanese national in

With 6,000 death row convicts, Kenya has the fourth largest death row population in the world. In the last

A Los Angeles County jury sentenced Chester Dewayne Turner, 47, Black, to death.

In a speedy, decisive judgment, the Mangaon court in Raigad district awarded the death sentence to a 24-

State-controlled media say a court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian citizen to death for

The Florida Supreme Court overturned 5-2 both the conviction and death sentence imposed on Paul C.

A Bahraini was sentenced to death for the vicious murder of a 20-year-old fugitive who allegedly posed as

Thirteen prisoners were hanged between 25 and 26 June in two prisons of Karaj.

Saudi authorities beheaded two nationals convicted of raping minors in two separate cases.