The Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto, Nigeria, upheld the death sentence earlier delivered by the

A military court in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip issued the death sentence to a Palestinian after finding

Ten Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) men were sentenced to death for involvement

An official in central China's Henan Province was executed for raping 11 underage girls, sources with the Henan Provincial Higher People's Court confirmed.

As many as 117 death-row inmates will be given lethal injections made in Vietnam beginning June

San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Terrence Van Oss overturned a jury's decision to

James Lewis DeRosa, 36, White, was executed in Oklahoma.

One prisoner was hanged in the Rajai Shahr Prison of Karaj, reported the Iranian daily

Bangladesh Parliament passed a law with provisions allowing the death penalty as the maximum punishment

The Nagasaki District Court sentenced a 28-year-old man to death for the 2011 murders of two relatives

President Goodluck Jonathan called on State Governors not to shy away from signing death sentences

two convicted rapists and killers were put to death in a Kuwaiti prison in Salibiya. It was Kuwait’s second