A government action plan was released in China to improve the trial procedures and reviews of death

Indonesia’s top narcotics official said that the use of the death penalty for drug offenses does

Saddam Hussein's trusted personal secretary, once No. 4 on the U.S. most-wanted

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug trafficking, the second execution in

Five prisoners were hanged publicly in the city of Shiraz (southern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered police and government officials to fly to a mountain

Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, has refused to sign a bill passed by parliament

Reams of private Vatican correspondence published in a new Italian best-seller reportedly include

Henry Jackson, 47, black, has been executed in Mississippi for the murders of 4 nieces and nephews after Gov. Phil Bryant denied a family request to spare his life.

The execution of Aum Supreme Truth founder Chizuo Matsumoto is highly likely to be postponed

A judge in Guyana commuted the death sentences of four prisoners, saying their protracted

in the last days of her presidency, President Pratibha Patil commuted 30 death sentence