Al-Shabaab member Mukhtar Mahamed was executed in Beledweyne after a military court
The High Court in Alor Setar, Malaysia, sentenced a businessman to death by hanging
A 27-year-old man convicted of murder and robbery has become the first death-row prisoner to be executed with the lethal injection in Vietnam.
With the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentences of 4 young Arab men
A mentally ill man convicted of killing eight people in the late 1970s in the Miami area was executed at Florida State Prison in Raiford in the evening.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said today that its remaining supply of
Bahrain's King Hamad has decreed stiffer penalties for "terror acts" in the country rocked
In India, Manjeri district sessions court sentenced Palapparamban Abdul Nasar, 45, to death
The Afghan police will submit to justice the case of religious leader Abdul Ghafoor, who
A criminal court in the western city of Misrata, Libya, has sentenced a Gaddafi-era education
Douglas Feldman, 55, White, was executed in Texas.
The founder of a liberal minded website in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes after angering Islamic authorities in the country, a newspaper reported.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran