Five prisoners were hanged in two Iranian cities in the morning, reported Iranian state media.

A former Chinese police officer was sentenced to death for homicide, 17 years after the murdered woman's

On the sentencing to death of former President Morsi, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, Sergio D'Elia, said: "The death sentence of former President Morsi, the latest in a long line of hundreds in the last year have been imposed on members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Spiritual Guide Mohamed Badie, clearly appears as politically motivated.

About the news of the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, for his role in the 2013 bombing at the

A Muslim Brotherhood member was sentenced to death and three others to life for accusations of forming a "terror cell".

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy was sentenced by a Cairo court to death -- the latest judicial

six men with alleged ties to a terrorist group were hanged in a Cairo jail over violence that followed the 2013 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug smuggling, bringing to 84 the number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year, the interior ministry said.

Another murder convict was executed in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, raising the total number of executions

Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a federal jury for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. But his execution may not happen for decades – if ever.

Four persons found guilty of a murder reported in 2000 have been sentenced to death in Sri Lanka.

In a prison in the southern city of Shiraz, Iranian regime’s henchmen secretly hanged seven prisoners on May 10 and 12.