A U.N. committee has expressed deep concern at Iran's continuing use of torture, the

The government inflates support for the death penalty in its opinion surveys and a significant portion

Saudi authorities beheaded two nationals for murder, including one who stabbed his wife to death and burned her corpse, the interior ministry said.

the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly passed a resolution acknowledging

Two ringleaders of an infant trafficking gang, based in mountainous Ya'an City of southwest China's

A Kuwait criminal court sentenced an Iraqi fisherman to death for killing a Kuwaiti

China's newly-revised criminal rules for procuratorates updates the review of death sentences

Saudi Arabia beheaded three men convicted of separate murders across the kingdom, the interior ministry announced.

Iranian state broadcasting reported that a man identified as "Fereydon

A committee of Ugandan MPs has endorsed the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill but dropped the death

In India, the Supreme Court has said its Constitution bench's landmark judgement of 1980

Slamming the lax probe, the Delhi High Court acquitted two convicts given death penalty in