according to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), six prisoners were hanged in Esfahan, Iran,

President of India Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the anti-rape law ordinance after cabinet ministers recommended changes to impose harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan’s Punjab province awarded two death sentences

Seventy-six inmates, two of them female, are languishing in prison in Zimbabwe awaiting execution.

President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan requested for stay of execution on Nigerians on

Iran Human Rights reported that reliable sources in Iran said as many as 400 prisoners might have been executed in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison in the previous four or five months.

Five prisoners were executed in the prison of Kerman (Southeastern Iran) in the morning, reported the state run Iranian media.

Amnesty International has expressed concern at the situation in a Yemeni prison where scores

An overseas Filipino worker who has languished on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a

In Nigeria, a Delta State High Court sitting in Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government Area, has sentenced

Saudi Arabia executed two of its nationals after they were sentenced to death for separate murders, the Interior Ministry announced.

The Pakistani Christian community can celebrate the acquittal on appeal of a man sentenced to death for blasphemy.