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.
One of the world's most respected spiritual leaders has asked that mercy be shown in
A North Korean man has been executed after murdering his two children for food, media
Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa approved a death sentence delivered in absentia for seven
A man who killed his colleague and was sentenced to death, had his capital punishment
One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Mianeh (northwestern Iran) reported the official
An Egyptian judge sentenced 21 people to death for their roles in a football game riot last year, a ruling
A Bahraini appeals court upheld a death sentence and a life-term respectively passed
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
