China will start phasing out the use of executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplants next

According to a report published by the Melli-Mazhabi website, four women have been stoned to death during the past days in Iran. Security agents from the Iranian Judiciary reportedly transferred the bodies of the four women to the Tehran forensic medicine department.

In Nigeria, a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja sentenced a 31-year-old electrician, Abdulkadri

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