Iran hanged the first of four men sentenced to death for a massive financial scam that tainted the government of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran’s Public Prosecutor’s Office said.

two more people have escaped death by hanging, after they were pardoned by victims’ families. A murder

The Senate has rejected a 2nd bid to repeal New Hampshire's death penalty.

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