Japan's new Justice Minister Toshio Ogawa indicated he could resume issuing orders for executions
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in an interview published in London, urged
According to the reports from Iran 12 prisoners were executed in the city of Shiraz (southern Iran).
A Moroccan court sentenced the head of a major drug gang to death after he
A 19-year-old marine corporal surnamed Kim was sentenced to death in South Korea
A gang leader and his second-in-command were sentenced to death in Southwest
Kenyan fighting for the Al-Shabaab was executed by the Somali militant group for alleged espionage.
Three men's five years of freedom came to an end today when their acquittal on a charge of murdering
A Hamas official in Gaza says the militant group sentenced a local Palestinian to death for collaborating with Israel.
A man, Gohar Ahmed alias Chaman, was sentenced to death in Pakistan for kidnapping
A man was awarded capital punishment in Uttar Pradesh (India), in a 12-year old rape
A Filipina was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for trafficking in cocaine
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
