The Colombo High Court awarded the death sentence to five Tamil Nadu fishermen arrested by the Sri
In Bangladesh, a Natore court has sentenced one person to death for killing a class nine student in broad
Miguel Paredes, 32, Hispanic, was executed in Texas.
3 Kurds and an Iranian citizen were executed in the Urmia city of East Kurdistan.
Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was awarded death sentence for committing crimes against
The European Union has demanded Pakistan to abolish the death penalty by retaining a moratorium on
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in the morning a prisoner
South Korea's Yonhap News agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had purged about 10 officials of his ruling Workers’ Party for watching South Korean soap operas. Yonhap did not specify how or when the action was taken.
Two men convicted of murdering a journalist and a security official were executed in public in Somalia's
Chinese lawmakers are considering removing the death penalty as punishment for nine crimes, including
