South Korea's Yonhap News agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had purged about 10 officials of his ruling Workers’ Party for watching South Korean soap operas. Yonhap did not specify how or when the action was taken.

Two men convicted of murdering a journalist and a security official were executed in public in Somalia's

Chinese lawmakers are considering removing the death penalty as punishment for nine crimes, including

6 prisoners in Adelabad prison, Shiraz, and 2 prisoners in Shahab prison, Kerman, were executed by hanging.

A 26- year old woman charged with murder was hanged in Iran early morning, Tehran Prosecutor’s Office said, Iranian ISNA news agency reported.

One of three cousins accused of killing an Omani during a hunting trip in the desert had his death sentence

a 35-year-old prisoner was executed in the prison of Amol, reported the state run news agency FARS. The

Pope Francis said that keeping inmates isolated in maximum security prisons is “a form of torture,” and called life sentences “a hidden death penalty” that should be abolished along with capital punishment.

Reprieve, the charity that campaigns against the death penalty, said Britain risks being “complicit in a gross

At least three Afghans were hanged to death in Iran over drugs smuggling charges, Afghan officials said.

The head of the Law Committee in Kurdistan Parliament, Valla Farid, told BasNews that there should be

Al-Shabaab militants in southern Somalia publicly stoned an 18-year-old boy to death after he was accused of rape. The teenager, named as Hassan Ahmed Ali, was accused of raping a 28-year-old woman at gunpoint and sentenced to death by a local judge, Al-Shabaab’s Radio Andalus reported.