On 19 August 2013, Iraqi authorities executed 17 people, including

On 20 August 2013, Saudi Arabia beheaded two nationals convicted of murdering

six prisoners were hanged in the Karoun Prison of Ahwaz, reported the Iranian

Fawzi al-Khaibari was beheaded in the holy city of Medina. He was handed the death penalty for

Aden Sheikh Abdi was killed by firing squad in the capital, Mogadishu, after being convicted

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has suspended the implementation of capital punishment to 468 inmates including terrorists and others who were sentenced to death by military courts in Pakistan.

A court in the Gaza Strip sentenced two men to death, one of them - identified only as B.H. - on

President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the mercy petitions of Shivu and Jadeswamy, who

Huang Jiefu, head of the Health Ministry's organ transplant office, said China would start phasing

A court in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region sentenced two men to death and another three to prison for taking part in a violent attack that happened on 23 April.

Three prisoners were hanged publicly in Karaj (west of Tehran). According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA three young men identified as Meraj T., Ali A. and Milad P. (ages 20-24 years) were hanged at three different spots of the city.

The Iranian regime's henchmen have hanged a 18-year old boy in the western city of Kermanshah for alleged crime committed when he was 12.