The Supreme Court sitting in Kabwe has upheld the death sentence slapped on a mother and his son who

the United Nations human rights office voiced deep concern about the revised penal code in Brunei

The Senate Judiciary Committee revisited the idea of repealing New Hampshire's death penalty and

Kogi governor, Captain Idris Wada, has granted amnesty to Mr Lasisi Yusuf, a 67-year-old convict who

A court in Bagerhat district sentenced three members of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML) to

A court rejected the appeal of a former policeman who was given a death sentence for shooting a pregnant

Tran Tien Dung, chief secretariat of the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice, said the Ministry had suggested the

Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, 44, a Mexican national, was executed in Texas. He escaped prison in his native Mexico while serving a murder sentence and was in the U.S. illegally when he was arrested for the October 1997 slaying of 49-year-old Glen Lich.

The Supreme People’s Court, Vietnam’s highest court, upheld the death sentence to a Thai woman for

One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ardebil (Northwestern Iran) early in the morning, reported the

the National Executive Council has given the green light for work to proceed in establishing necessary

Quoting an anonymous source, South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reported that O Sang Hon, the deputy public security minister, was “executed by flame-thrower.”