Shirkoo Moarefi, 32, a Kurdish political prisoner, was hanged in the prison of Saghez (west

Reginald Griffin, 53, Black, a former death row inmate, became the 143rd person in the

The Government of Zimbabwe has been urged to come up with a clear position on whether or not

A Bangladeshi court handed down death penalty to 152 former paramilitary soldiers after

One Afghan citizen identified as "M. S." was hanged in the prison of Semnan, reported the state

A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced to death two Bangladeshis now living abroad

Saudi authorities beheaded a citizen in the southern Najran province after he was convicted of killing another man, the interior ministry said.

Iranian authorities executed a person by hanging in Parsilon Prison of Khorrambad

A Moroccan man convicted of abducting, raping and killing a 32-month-old girl was sentenced

Ohio will use a new injection method to put to death Ronald Phillips, the Department of Rehabilitation

The Iranian regime's judiciary in the city of Sari hanged a prisoner in the city's main prison.

Support for the death penalty is at a four-decade low in the United States, though most Americans --