For their alleged links to Boko Haram, some soldiers are to face death penalty while others will

In Malaysia, a high court outside the capital Kuala Lumpur found Bebou Akpo

The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Death Row, USA shows a continuation of

Italy is working to establish a group of countries that will resume the campaign for a moratorium on the death penalty in the world. This was announced by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino in the Senate during a press conference sponsored by Hands Off Cain and the Extraordinary Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, throwing an alarm on the record number of executions recorded in the last month in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and North Korea.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that Steven Staley, a death row inmate with a history

A judge sentenced to death the four men convicted in the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack on a bus that left the young woman with such severe internal injuries that she died two weeks later.

Japan hanged a 73-year-old man, bringing to six the number of inmates executed since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe came to power in December.

At least 10 prisoners have been hanged in Iran in the last days.

The Swiss parliament wants to prevent pharmaceutical companies from supplying drugs used for

Minister of Justice and Constitution Affairs Mathias Chikawe proposed that the death

Saudi authorities beheaded national Salim Bin Hassan Al Essi in the city of Qunfadhah. He was

Anthony Rozelle Banks, 61, Black, was executed after he apologized for taking the victim's life