A scathing new report by a bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts said some chemicals used to execute

At least four prisoners have been executed in Iran in the last days.

Two Palestinians were executed in the Gaza Strip as Israeli spies, the enclave’s Islamist Hamas government

A Nigerian national has been sentenced to death by a Malaysian court for trafficking

An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City increased the sentence of a former prison guard from life to death for

In Kuwait, the Criminal Court presided over by Justice Waleed Al-Kandari sentenced two Egyptian

According to reports by sources in Afghanistan a juvenile offender has recently been executed in Iran. The Dari section of Radio Liberty (Radio Azadi), reported that a 15 year old Afghan boy identified as Jannat Mir was among the six Afghan citizens who were executed in the Dastgerd prison of Isfahan in April.

A Saudi court annulled the death sentence and ordered the release of a 21-year-old convicted local killer

Upholding a lower court’s verdict, the Fujairah Court of Appeal sentenced an Emirati man to death for

Clayton Lockett, the death-row inmate who was the subject of a botched execution by the state of

Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Franklyn Bai Kargbo, told the United Nations Committee

the new Sharia Penal Code of Brunei Darussalam came into force, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah stated in a royal