Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party, said he backs the application

Mohammed Rashad Khairi Hussain, a Yemeni national, was beheaded and crucified for having

Kuwait hanged three convicted murderers in the first executions in the Gulf state since May 2007, the ministry of justice said.

Iraq executed Al-Qaeda's former Baghdad chief and three other men convicted of terror

The Legislature in Georgia approved keeping secret the identities of the companies that provide

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