Congestion in Zimbabwe's prisons is set to ease a bit after President Robert Mugabe acceded to pleas by
In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court today, Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government has said that 1993
Two men were hanged in public in the city of Karaj at 7 AM this morning, reported the Iranian state media.
In Nigeria, an Osogbo (Osun State) High Court sentenced two young men to death by hanging for raping a
Two men were hanged in Iran's southern city of Shiraz this morning, Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.
A court in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis sentenced a man convicted of murder to death, a Ma'an
Juan Carlos Chavez was executed in Florida. Chavez, 46, from Cuba, had been sentenced to death in
A Malaysian High Court sentenced a former lorry driver to the gallows after he was found guilty of
A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to death in Iran for accidentally killing a friend during a brawl - and
In Pakistan, the Sindh High Court (SHC) dismissed the appeal of a former police constable against his
three leading anti-death penalty groups have appealed to the United Nations to freeze counter-narcotics
Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced today that he would issue a reprieve for any death penalty case that reaches his desk.
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
