A move by Hamas to replace an almost 80-year old punitive law with a new conservative one has been

The Supreme Court four-judge bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam commuted the death sentence

Anthony Doyle, 29, Black, was executed in Texas.

Taiwan's Ministry of Justice said that it will continue carrying out capital punishment lawfully and with

Jeffrey Ferguson, 59, White, was executed in Missouri.

Seventy per cent of the death sentences awarded by the country’s lower judiciary on drug smuggling

A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate was granted a retrial in Japan over multiple murders in 1966, decades after doubts emerged about his guilt.

A Dhaka court sentenced two kidnappers to death in absentia for killing a six years schoolboy after

Pakistan has suspended the implementation of the death sentence for an indefinite period, the country's Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Ali told the Parliament.

The President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, implicitly condemned the 529 death sentences handed down

A 21-year-old man who led a machete-armed gang that hacked off a woman's hand and violently robbed at

A janitor sentenced to death for raping a seven-year-old schoolgirl had his sentence upheld by the Appeals