The Ugandan lawmaker who originally authored an anti-gay bill proposing

Papua New Guinea is contemplating introducing execution by lethal injection for 10 people on death

The Court of Appeal in Sabah State, Malaysia, upheld the death sentence of a jobless man who

An Egyptian court has sentenced eight Christians to death over the release of the controversial film “Innocence of Muslims”, which triggered violent protests across the Muslim world in September.

Two friends were sent to the gallows by a High Court in Malaysia for trafficking 195.6kg of

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