Three people responsible for a fire, in which 11 people were killed and two others

Jesse Joe Hernandez, 47, Hispanic, was executed in Texas.

In Egypt, Banha Criminal Court sentenced one person to death and six others to prison in

In Jamaica, the death sentence of convicted St Mary child killer Jeffery Perry was overturned

Japan hanged three death-row inmates in its first executions since 2010, reigniting the debate over capital punishment in one of the world’s richest countries.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington issued the 22-page decision in a case filed by 21 condemned convicts against the federal Food and Drug Administration, which they alleged had violated its own rules by allowing entry of the powerful anaesthetic into the United States without first ensuring its efficacy.

After spending 12 years behind bars at Luzira Maximum Security Prisons, in Uganda, for

in Zimbabwe, Justice Martin Makonese sentenced Colgate Buffen Mudenda to death by

In the UAE, the Fujairah Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the Court of First Instance

The High Court in Alor Setar, Malaysia, sentenced a Nigerian man to death after finding

A Uighur man accused by the Chinese government of being the mastermind behind deadly

Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing