Justice Emmanuel Nkea of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in Banjul, Gambia, convicted

Rape, robbery and murder will attract the death penalty in Papua New Guinea after the country's

An accountant, who slit the throat of a compatriot housewife in her flat after persuading her to let him in by asking for a glass of water, has been sentenced to death in the UAE

A Botswana man who was handed six death sentences for murdering his family after a misunderstanding over food was executed.

A Kuwaiti court sentenced an officer to death for killing another officer.

The Puntland military court in northern Somalia has convicted 7 persons of committing acts of terrorism

A court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sentenced three men to death for their part in a gang

Zambia President Michael Chilufya Sata has pardoned 615 inmates with minor offenses countrywide while 113 have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

According to unofficial sources in Iran, at least one woman was hanged in Gharchak Prison

Governor John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve to Nathan Dunlap, the state's longest-serving death row inmate, ordering his execution blocked indefinitely.

The three brothers who were convicted of killing two Omani nationals in Al Ain city