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-
In Pakistan, additional Sessions Judge Chaudhry Zafar Iqbal awarded death sentences to two
A fast track court in Jammu and Kashmir, India, awarded the death penalty to an accused charged
A former senior official of the Hohhot railway bureau in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been
Myanmar's president commuted the death sentences of some convicts and slashed the jail terms of others
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
