In Nigeria, Delta State House of Assembly passed a bill stipulating death sentence
Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin insisted that his ministry has no intention of reinstating the death penalty despite strong suggestions by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that capital punishment could return to Turkey.
Iran sent 35 prisoners to the gallows in a collective execution carried out in the northwestern
Brett Hartman, 38, white, was executed in Ohio for the Sept. 9, 1997 death of Winda Snipes
In Pakistan, Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Khairpur gave capital sentence to 15 accused
Two guards of vice president Tareq al-Hashemi were sentenced by an Iraqi court to death for planting a
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would consider bringing back capital punishment in terror related crimes, a decade after it abolished the practice.
In Zambia, the Supreme Court sitting in Kabwe has upheld the death sentence slapped on two men of
The lawyer for Australian nurse Emma Louise L'Aiguille accused of drug trafficking in Malaysia
A court in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland sentenced to death a man found
Iraqi authorities executed 10 prisoners for terrorism convictions, the Ministry of Justice announced.
Two prisoners at Dubai Central Jail who are on death row for a murder they committed in
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
