Two brothers who were indicted for murder were sentenced to death in Sri lanka

Zimbabwe's often-delayed constitutional revision process hit another obstacle this week as

The Constitutional Court of Belarus may clarify its position on the death penalty if

The United Nations human rights chief said today she was shocked at reports that 34 people were executed in Iraq in a single day last week and called on the country to institute an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

A court in Algeria sentenced a fugitive leader of al-Qaeda's north African wing and three of his followers to death for attacks against the military.

Describing the act of a 40-year-old man, who murdered five persons under the influence

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Government will work to implement

Justice Lateefat Okunnu of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, Nigeria, sentenced a young man,

the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the state of Ohio challenging the

General amnesty was recently granted to thousands of detainees in Tunisian prisons in

14 activists arrested yesterday at U.S. Supreme Court to commemorate 35th anniversary

There was a sharp increase in the use of the death penalty in Iran in 2011, and many more were