Two Iranian sisters were sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for trafficking

A housemaid who stabbed a co-worker to death with a kitchen knife in an unexplained

In Zimbabwe, the Supreme Court upheld death sentences for two murder convicts, one of them

A court in southeast China's Fujian Province said that it has sentenced three

Iraq executed 18 people this month, eight of them on the same day as an attack on the justice ministry, a top official said, despite global condemnation over its ongoing executions.

The Senate passed (11-10) a bill to repeal the death penalty for future offenses. The

Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency says a local court in southwestern Iran has sentenced

A man sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for murdering his wife had his sentence

A Yemeni security court overturned the death penalty against two Shiite rebels who were

A Muslim man was sentenced to death after having been found guilty of killing two Coptic Christians

Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands off Cain, and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Treasurer, wrote a letter to the Italian Minister of Justice Paola Severino to ask that Miguel Torres not be expelled to the U.S. where he risks the death penalty.

A Saudi court sentenced a man to death after he was convicted of aborting more than 40 pregnant women