The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee criticized serious rights violations in Iran, including

A High Court in Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria, has sentenced a 24-year-old secondary school

In Zimbabwe, an Inyathi man who murdered his uncle escaped the hangman's noose when a judge

Missouri corrections officials have executed Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist serial killer who targeted blacks and Jews, including an interracial couple in Wisconsin.

the NGO Libyan Prisoners Abroad reported that a Libyan found guilty of murder, Adel Zuwai, was

In India, a Sirsa court has sentenced two youths to death for rape and murder of a six-year-old

Three Uzbek friends were sentenced to death in Malaysia for trafficking more than 10kg of

Iraqi authorities executed a dozen “terrorism” convicts, defying widespread international condemnation

A Vietnamese court sentenced two business executives to death for their roles in a scandal that caused

The legal and human rights charity Reprieve has called on the United Kingdom to follow Ireland’s

A prisoner was hanged in Zahedan central prison on charge of murder, reported

A Pakistani drug trafficker was executed by firing squad at a South Tangerang cemetery early in the morning in the fifth death sentence carried out by Indonesian authorities since the government announced a renewed push to execute those convicted of capital offenses.