According to official and unofficial reports from Iran, at least six prisoners were executed in three different prisons today.
In Zimbabwe, a man who hacked a three-year-old girl to death last year
Bahrain’s foreign minister says the government has agreed to ease its treatment of political activists
In India, a court pronounced capital punishment upon Jasvir Singh (37) of Kallowal village
Amos Mbedzi was spared the death penalty by Swaziland High Court Judge Bheki Maphalala
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani national in the holy city of Medina after convicting him of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said.
In Malaysia, the High Court sentenced a woman and three men to life imprisonment
In Thailand, the Supreme Court upheld the Appeals Court's death sentence for
The UAE’s top court has twice rejected a death sentence issued by several other courts against
Pakistan's Supreme Court was asked to declare the death penalty unconstitutional, a ruling
A Gaza court sentenced a Palestinian youth to death by hanging after he was found guilty
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has placed a moratorium on the execution of the remaining 38 prisoners on death row in the west African state following appeals from regional leaders, the government said in a statement.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours