Tennessee's governor has signed a bill that would allow the state to use of the electric chair if lethal injection

Justice and Police Minister Edward Belfort announced that Suriname will raise its maximum jail sentence to

The death sentence has been imposed upon at least one person caught making phone contact with South Korea from a location near the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned via detailed, exclusive testimony from a source in the region.

Two Ho Chi Minh City courts independently sentenced a disabled man and an Australian Vietnamese to

A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced a Filipino man to death and two of his compatriots to life

A court in Garsen, Tana Delta district has sentenced four men, including a former GSU officer, to hang. The

the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed two Kurdish civilians in the town of Deir Hafer in

The Supreme Court of India commuted death sentence of two convicts in 2002 in American Center attack

A criminal court in Abu Dhabi sentenced a drug dealer from another Gulf country to death after he was

Georgia's highest court ruled that the law that makes the identity of an execution drug supplier a "confidential

Five prisoners, charged with murder, were hanged in the Rajaishahr prison of Karaj early in the morning, according to reliable sources Iran Human Rights (IHR) has been in contact with.

Alexandria's criminal court upheld an earlier verdict sentencing Mahmoud Hassan Abdel-Naby to death for