Lai Changxing, who spent 12 years on the run in Canada as China’s most notorious fugitive,
15 states urged the U.S. Justice Department to intervene to help import thiopental (brand name
Zambia's Vice-President Guy Scott visited the largest correctional facility in the country, Mukobeko
Iran hanged 14 people in Tehran after they were convicted of drug trafficking, a statement from the Tehran prosecutor’s office said.
the supreme court in Gaza rejected an appeal against the death sentence of a man
President Pratibha Patil of India commuted the death sentence of a domestic help, who
A former Chinese tycoon who was convicted of illegally raising money for her business has been sentenced
Two prisoners were publicly hanged in Isfahan (central Iran) early in the morning.
A court in the Sudanese capital Khartoum sentenced an unidentified woman to be executed
Missouri finds a drug option for executions: Propofol. The Missouri Department of Corrections
Syrian authorities have sentenced to death for "treason" an activist who was arrested in April
Saudi authorities beheaded two Pakistanis in Makkah finding them guilty of two murders, the interior ministry said.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
