in a poll conducted to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s last legal executions, 45 percent of Brits said murderers should face the death penalty.

a federal judge has extended a temporary moratorium on executions in Ohio until 15 January 2015 to allow more time for the state to implement a new lethal-injection procedure.

Kenya has agreed to Somalia's request to extradite a Somali citizen believed to be senior al-Shabaab

Egypt’s Mufti Shaki Allam has urged a reconsideration of the death sentence verdict passed on Muslim