In Uttar Predesh (India) a court sentenced seven persons to gallows for killing a
A man who swallowed 103 capsules of heroin so he could smuggle the drug into the UAE faces execution
In Zimbabwe, a convicted murderer had his death sentence quashed by the Supreme Court
Islamists in northern Mali stoned an unmarried couple to death, the first reported sharia
A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran's biggest-ever banking
In Thailand, the Criminal Court handed down the death sentence for three former
A Saudi man sentenced to death for murdering another Saudi during a fight was saved from
The Iraqi Presidency Council ratified the death penalty verdicts for 12 terror convicts, including two from other Arab countries, Iraqi official television reported.
In South Africa, the Constitutional Court has upheld a ruling that government can't
A development zone official in a south China city was sentenced to death over land-related
In Pakistan, the Sindh law and prisons minister, Ayaz Soomro, announced that there will be no
In India, Madhya Pradesh High Court commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence
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
