A convicted drug trafficker was executed publicly early in the mornng in the Iranian city of Rasht

Pushed by human rights groups, the European Union is set to ban the sale to the

Executions in China have dropped 50 per cent since 2007 to around 4,000 per year,

Government officials in Somalia’s Puntland State say they have executed two men convicted

A Saudi woman was beheaded after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is

One man was hanged publicly and amputation verdicts of two prisoners were implemented

A South African woman was executed in China for drug smuggling, eNews reported.

Italy's Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi asked Belarus to suspend the death sentences of the two

Convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose case became an international cause,

A hard-line group of Asian countries are defying the global trend against the death penalty

Saad Yusef al-Muttalibi, adviser to the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al Maliki, has told CNN that Saddam Hussein's former deputy, the Christian Tareq Aziz, will be executed in 2012 "after the withdrawal of USA troops".

The illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol in the western Indian state of Gujarat