a woman received a lethal injection for lacing milk with nitrite, which killed three children and

According to reports from reliable sources in Iran, yesterday and today 25 prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran.

Pakistan's new government ended the moratorium on executions, an official said.

Attorney General Chris Koster again today called on the Missouri Supreme Court to set execution

The International Committee Against Stoning received information from Tabriz prison that two people had been sentenced to death by stoning.

A Syrian Roman Catholic priest, Father Francois Murad, was killed on June 23 in northern Syria

A Filipina sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China was executed by lethal injection, the

A Chinese court overturned the death sentences of four men for robbing and killing two taxi

Nigeria has said it will not alter its position on the death penalty, which is allowed in

Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court of Nigeria said that capital punishment should

A total of 38 percent Russians support the resumption of death penalties in the

Four prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian cities.