Bahrain's special security court sentenced a protester to death for killing a policeman

One man was hanged in the city of Sari, northern Iran, early in the morning reported

North Korea has liberalized its Criminal Code reducing the crime list for the capital punishment

Iran has hanged two convicted drug traffickers in the eastern city of Zabol, local media reported

a man convicted of killing a young woman and her 3-year-old brother after his offer

a Sudanese man facing execution in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of murdering a

One prisoner was hanged in the central prison of Qom (south of Tehran) early in the morning, reported the Iranain state media.

China has made strides in protecting the human rights of prison inmates in recent years, including

at a Nanyuki court in Kenya, senior principal magistrate Jesse Nyaga sentenced houseboy

Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich today commuted the death sentence of Joseph Murphy

Yemeni national Abdulrazaq Al-Sayed was executed in the southwestern Saudi Arabian city of

Iran's supreme court upheld a sentence of blinding in one eye for a waiter who hurled acid at