An Iraqi court has convicted the country's Sunni vice president on charges of instigating bodyguards to
In Iran, eight prisoners transferred from Ghezelhesar prison to Evin were executed
Vietnam says it can’t execute its hundreds of death row criminals because the European Union is refusing to export the lethal drugs used in the executions.
Donald Moeller, 60, white, was executed in South Dakota. Moeller was given a lethal injection for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Becky O'Connell.
Vietnam sentenced a 61-year-old Filipina to death after she was caught smuggling
Countries around the world are increasingly viewing capital punishment as a form of torture
The Supreme Court in Iran confirmed the death sentence of two prisoners.
In Zimbabwe, a 34-year-old man who shot and killed the Chiredzi Central Intelligence Organisation
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, ACHPR, has called on the Federal Government
Ahmed Abdi Botan, head of the Puntland military court, sentenced a Yemeni man to
A new Los Angeles Times poll of registered voters in California showed a dramatic increase in
President Bashar al-Assad issued the legislative decree No. 71 for 2012 stipulating for granting
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
