Two plenary sessions, eleven panel discussions, workshops and debates: kicks off today in Madrid the 5th

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Syrian man convicted of trying to smuggle narcotics into the kingdom, the interior ministry said. Hussam Al Rjoob had attempted to “smuggle a large amount of narcotic tablets,” the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

The Wau Special Court presided over by Judge Alexander Fabos sentenced to death by hanging

two children were beheaded by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a statement released by the governor's office in the southern province of Kandahar said.

A 47 year old man was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court for the murder

In a speedy trial, a 53-year-old man was sentenced to death by a court in India for rape

A resident of a Somali town says that al-Qaida-linked militants killed two men by

Saudi Arabia is actively soliciting applicants who can be trained to behead people sentenced

Members of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the Syrian city of Aleppo have allegedly executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents as punishment for what the group regarded as blasphemy.

Of nearly 75,000 prisoners in jails in Pakistan, around 1,100 are women, according to the Human Rights

A law that allowed death-row inmates to challenge their sentences based on racial bias

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians