A young man charged with premeditated murder was hanged in the morning
Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki deeply regretted the non-alteration of Article 21 of the draft
A Saudi court sentenced seven men to long jail terms and ordered them lashed 99 times each in front of a
A parliamentary opposition group has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty in
In Nigeria, Kano High Court 4 at Audu Bako secretariat presided over by Justice Nura Sagir has sentenced
Askari Abdullah Muhammad, previously known as Thomas Knight, was executed in Florida. The 62-year-
A firing squad has executed a soldier in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after a military court convicted
At least one prisoner was hanged on charge of murder in central prison of Zahedan
One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Sari (Northern Iran) today, reported the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
The National Constituent Assembly (NCA) voted for maintaining capital punishment in the upcoming
Lebanon's Military Tribunal handed down a death sentence in absentia to two brothers for collaborating
Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger who has been in prison since June 2012 for violating the nation’s anti-
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
