the Supreme Court dismissed the Centre’s plea seeking review of its verdict holding that undue delay by the

One man was hanged in the central prison of Mashhad (Northern Iran) reported the daily newspaper

After 30 years behind bars - most of them on death row - Glenn Ford, walked free tonight from the

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has failed to fulfil campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression and there has been a sharp rise in executions since his election.

the Commissioner General of Prisons said Sri Lanka's efforts to shorten the waiting time for death row

the U.N. anti-drugs chief praised Iran's fight against narcotics trafficking despite a surge in executions in the country, many of people convicted of drug-related offences.

a court in Cairo sentenced 14 men to be hanged for the revenge killing of a merchant and his daughter in a

In a sensational verdict, a district court judge in Guntur handed death sentence to three notorious dacoits

the Military High Court of Somalia executed three soldiers who were charged and convicted of killing soldiers and a journalist in Mogadishu in 2013.

four men were hanged in the Shahnaz Street of Bandar Abbas early in the morning, reported the news

The Islamic republic's execution rate, which has soared to ghastly heights since self-described moderate Hassan Rouhani became president last year, should be viewed as a “positive marker of Iranian achievement,” according to the head of Iran’s Judiciary Human Rights Council.

Four men were publicly whipped in northern Nigeria after being convicted of having gay sex by an Islamic