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

There is potential for abolishing the death penalty among the newly democratized southern Mediterranean

Two death-row inmates were hanged in Tokyo and Osaka, in the second round of executions

Iran complained to Saudi government for ignoring Judicial Accord it signed with the Islamic

Three members of an Iranian family were saved from the gallows when the High Court

An appeals court in Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam upheld the death

In Uttar Predesh (India) a court sentenced seven persons to gallows for killing a

A man who swallowed 103 capsules of heroin so he could smuggle the drug into the UAE faces execution

In Zimbabwe, a convicted murderer had his death sentence quashed by the Supreme Court

Islamists in northern Mali stoned an unmarried couple to death, the first reported sharia