Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a bill known as the "Michael Morton Act" (Senate Bill 1611 and
A man convicted of murdering his brother-in-law with a sharp dagger was sentenced to death
In Bangladesh, a Chittagong court sentenced four people to death for killing a lawyer’s
In Nigeria, an Owerri High Court sentenced eight persons to death by hanging.
Eight people have been hanged in Iran in the last days.
Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis and displayed their bodies in public for killing a national and forming a gang that committed robberies across several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
two kidnappers involved in the murder of an 11-year-old boy were hanged in western Herat province
Iran hanged two convicted spies, one found guilty of working for Israel, the other for the United States, the Tehran prosecutor's office announced.
Indonesia has executed three convicted murderers, an official said, the second time that the
A Saudi man escaped a sentence of paralysis for stabbing and paralysing another man by offering him
One man was hanged publicly in Noshahr (northern Iran) for murder.
A court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang sentenced to death a woman convicted
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
