An Indonesian court sentenced a British woman to death for attempting to smuggle drugs into the resort island of Bali.

An Algerian court sentenced to death the fugitive head of Al-Qaeda's North Africa

Bangladesh will drop plans to impose the death penalty for counterfeiting, a central bank

Six men have been executed in public in Iran in the last days.

A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced a former leader of the country’s largest Islamic

Decks have finally been cleared in United Arab Emirates for the release of 17 Indians

Six Death Row inmates had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment in Guyana. The

Somali militants linked to al-Qaeda said today they had executed a French agent who French

The Death Penalty Information Center offers a new resource page on death sentences

Six prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian prisons, reported the official Iranian

Robert Gleason Jr., 42, white, was executed in Virginia's electric chair at Greensville Correctional Center.

At a press conference with leaders of the NAACP, Maryland's Governor Martin O'Malley