Iran’s Supreme Court has quashed the death sentence for Saeed Malekpour, a web programmer

China executed music student Yao Jiaxin, 21, for stabbing 26-year-old mother Zhang Miao to death after hurting her in a car crash on October 20, 2010.

at a Mogadishu Military Court in Somalia, judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein sentenced

Ethiopian government commuted the death sentences of 23 former Derg regime high ranking officials for committing genocide to life time imprisonment.

six men were hanged in Iran.

after being released from death row in Sharjah central jail in the United Arab Emirates

US military prosecutors have filed new charges against self-described 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators, held at Guantanamo Bay.

the Military Court in Gaza City sentenced Fadel Msallam Shallouf, 26, from the southern Gaza Strip

Ebrat News, a site close to the Iranian authorities revealed more details about

India's first executions in seven years are likely be delayed because authorities are unable to find

Iran has 300 convicted drug smugglers on death row, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said in comments published today, adding that, to his regret, few of them were major traffickers.

close to 70 prisoners were executed in the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, Iran, despite the