At least one prisoner was hanged on charge of murder in central prison of Zahedan
One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Sari (Northern Iran) today, reported the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
The National Constituent Assembly (NCA) voted for maintaining capital punishment in the upcoming
Lebanon's Military Tribunal handed down a death sentence in absentia to two brothers for collaborating
Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger who has been in prison since June 2012 for violating the nation’s anti-
In Pakistan, additional Sessions Judge Chaudhry Zafar Iqbal awarded death sentences to two
A fast track court in Jammu and Kashmir, India, awarded the death penalty to an accused charged
A former senior official of the Hohhot railway bureau in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been
Myanmar's president commuted the death sentences of some convicts and slashed the jail terms of others
mediation efforts by Tabuk Emir Prince Fahd Bin Sultan paved the way for the family of a murder
a newspaper reported a Saudi prince who murdered a fellow Saudi may be executed, in a rare example of a
at least 169 people were put to death in 2013, by far the country's highest such figure since the 2003 US-led invasion, and one that puts it third in the world, behind just China and Iran.
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
