The Ministry of Justice has proposed abolishing the death penalty for a number of crimes including robbery and heroin smuggling, reducing it to life sentence at most.

Central Criminal Court sentenced two convicted, one of them is from Tajikistan and the other is from Saudi Arabia to death.

An Egyptian military court upheld death sentences for seven people convicted of belonging to a Sinai-based militant group that bombed a military checkpoint in northern Cairo, a lawyer has said.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani national and a Saudi man after sentencing them to death for drug trafficking and murder.

another murder convict was hanged in Faisalabad's Central Jail after being on death row for around two decades.

after rejecting mercy petitions of 22 convicts on death row, President Pranab Mukherjee commuted the death sentence of a convict to life imprisonment.

six more death row prisoners were executed in various jails across Punjab and Sindh provinces, bringing the number of executions to 59 since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.

The UAE’s top court overturned a death sentence against a defendant convicted of murdering another man

The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP), the leading trade group for compound

Gov. Gary Herbert signed one of the 2015 Utah Legislature’s most controversial bills on Monday to

Federal Government of Somalia’s military court executed two Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers for the murder of civilians, Garowe Online reported.

three people were executed for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people at a train station in Kunming in March 2014, China’s Supreme People’s Court announced in a microblog post, with authorities blaming the attack on separatists from mainly Muslim Xinjiang.