Somalia’s military court carried out the death penalty against four Shabab fighters founded guilty of ant-

Joseph Wood gasped and snorted in an execution that lasted nearly 2 hours today.

Al-Shabaab militants in Dinsor, in Somalia's Bay region, publically executed a 14-year-old girl accused of

Iran hanged at least 10 prisoners including four women last Sunday (July 20) and Monday (July 21).

Three prisoners have been executed in Vietnam in different cases, state media reported.

A policeman who shot dead a pregnant woman while drunk and injured her husband was executed for the

People convicted of terrorism in the UAE could face the death penalty under new legislation being

Switzerland and seven further states successfully presented to the UN Human Rights Council a resolution

President Pranab Mukherjee of India rejected the mercy petitions of Nithari serial killer Surinder Koli and

The Court of Appeal in Tanzania has reduced to five years imprisonment a death sentence earlier imposed

Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche the co-mastermind of the Nyanya Motor Park bombing, in which scores of citizens

According to a report released on July 16 by the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Justice,