Noting that poor and downtrodden usually go to the gallows, Chairman of the Law Commission of India

David Zink, 55, White, has been executed.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has blocked, at least temporarily, a bill which would require judges to

President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent offenders, including five serving life sentences, saying “their punishments didn’t fit the crime.”

Cutting across the party lines, the members of Parliament (MPs) and political leaders favoured the abolition

Under the new law published in the Royal Gazette, officials of both Thailand and foreign countries who have

The Egyptian Observatory of Rights and Freedoms has reported that both Egyptian military and civilian courts issued 92,420 sentences against Egyptian citizens during the first year of Abdul-Fatah Al-Sisi's rule, including 464 death sentences.

South Korea says North Korea has officially confirmed the purging of its defence chief two months after

The United Arab Emirates executed by firing squad a UAE woman convicted of terrorism early today after

Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has supported abolition of the death penalty, saying that as President

14 members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to death in two separate terrorism-related cases.

Thailand deported more than 100 Uighurs back to China, ignoring concerns that the ethnic minority faces persecution by the Chinese government, while protesters in Turkey, which had accepted an earlier batch of refugees, ransacked the Thai Consulate.