On the sidelines of the ongoing 67th UN General Assembly in New York, Madagascar President

One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan, reported the Iranian media.

The Anbar criminal court sentenced four al-Qaeda members to death by hanging

Cleve Foster, 48, white, was executed in Texas. He had been sentenced to death on Feb

President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia has given the strongest hint yet that his government

The Chairperson of South Sudan Human Rights Commission (SSHRC) warned against

In Bangladesh, a Dhaka court sentenced five people including three brothers to death

In Kenya, a jailed bird who has been in and out of prison nine times and his accomplice

A court in the Suez Canal governorate of Ismailia, in Egypt, sentenced 14 militant Islamists to death

One prisoner was hanged in public in the Northwestern Iranian province of Azarbaijan.

Iraq has executed nearly 100 people so far this year, a big increase over previous years

The latest statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), released today, found