July 12, 2013 Nearly 400 prisoners on death row, who are languishing in jails for the last several years due to non-decision about their fate by the Presidency, will now either be sent to the gallows or face life terms or will be set free.

From November 2012 to 11 July 2013, at least 31 prisoners were spared the capital punishment

In the first half of 2013, six states carried out 18 executions. In the same period last year, there

three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Ardebil (Iran) early in the morning. According

In Bangladesh, a Lalmonirhat court sentenced four youths to death for killing a college

Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Kermanshah (west of Iran), reported the state

A man was sentenced to death by a local court in Mainpuri, India, for raping a 9-year-old

Li Hao, 35, a former government employee of central China, was sentenced to death after being convicted

21 prisoners have been hanged in Iran in the last days.

In India, the Allahabad High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment, awarded

Authorities in Saudi Arabia’s western Makah province beheaded a man convicted of murder, the

China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death sentence for "especially