The Wau Special Court presided over by Judge Alexander Fabos sentenced to death by hanging
two children were beheaded by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a statement released by the governor's office in the southern province of Kandahar said.
A 47 year old man was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court for the murder
In a speedy trial, a 53-year-old man was sentenced to death by a court in India for rape
A resident of a Somali town says that al-Qaida-linked militants killed two men by
Saudi Arabia is actively soliciting applicants who can be trained to behead people sentenced
Members of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the Syrian city of Aleppo have allegedly executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents as punishment for what the group regarded as blasphemy.
Of nearly 75,000 prisoners in jails in Pakistan, around 1,100 are women, according to the Human Rights
A law that allowed death-row inmates to challenge their sentences based on racial bias
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians
In Vietnam, the Supreme People’s Court upheld the death penalty handed down by a provincial
Five people were sentenced to death and three others handed down life term by a
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours