The so-called Karbala governor for al-Qaeda is among eight al-Qaeda leaders sentenced
Observing that it was a "rarest of the rare case", a court in Haryana awarded death sentence
admitting problems in China's judicial system, chief justice Wang Shengjun vowed
In Egypt, Menya's Criminal Court has decided to sentence low-ranking policeman
March 12, 2012: Iran executed some 670 people last year, most of them for drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law and more than 20 for offences against Islam, a United Nations investigator said.
It's a myth that Tasers are less than lethal weapons: Amnesty International recently
A 25-year-old Saudi prisoner who was on death row at the general prison in the southern
A court in West Bengal, India, awarded death sentence to a man convicted of rape and
A Moroccan court rejected appeals from two men convicted over the bombing of a cafe
Three Taiwanese drug traffickers who were given the death penalty by the Xiamen
a draft amendment to the nation's Criminal Procedure Law was submitted to the ongoing 5th session
Robert Charles Towery, 47, white, was executed in Arizona
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
