Gambia executed by firing squad nine death row prisoners, after President Yahya Jammeh

International Organizations have called on Gambia to stop executing death row inmates.

EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton voiced concern at the execution in Texas of a disabled

A man who tortured, raped and strangled two co-workers in 1987 was put to death

The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on several Caribbean

Texas authorities executed Marvin Wilson, a 54-year-old death row inmate, after his attorneys failed to convince state and federal courts that he was mentally retarded and ineligible for the death penalty under a 2002 Supreme Court ruling.

The High Court in Malaysia sent a Filipino ex-convict to the gallows after he was found guilty

In Pakistan, an application on behalf of the Watan Party was moved in the Supreme

Delma Banks, 53, black, one of the longest serving inmates in Texas death-penalty history, received

A man sentenced to death over a series of deadly bomb blasts in Myanmar's main city in

The presentation of Hands Off Cain's 2012 Report, ‘The Death Penalty Worldwide’, edited by Elisabetta Zamparutti, was held at the headquarters of HOC in Rome.

In December 2012, the General Assembly will vote a new resolution in favor of a moratorium