the Bahamas government postponed the introduction of amended death penalty legislation
Four people have been executed in Qom prison during the past two weeks.
Saudi Arabia beheaded three Nigerians accused of murdering and robbing a fellow citizen, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
Justice Francis Fedode Tabai of the Nigerian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay urged Senegal to reconsider its decision to send Chad's former
the Federal Court in Putrajaya, Malaysia, upheld the death sentence imposed on an Indonesian found
The United States breached international law by executing a Mexican national without having
The U.S. State of Texas executed a Mexican citizen convicted of rape and murder of an American girl, defying protests from his home country and the Obama administration that it violated international law.
Two men were hanged in the prison of Orumiyeh (northwestern Iran) early this
An Australian drug smuggler sentenced to death in Indonesia, one of the "Bali Nine" gang
Vietnam was supposed to execute the condemned by lethal injection as of July
a court in Hebi city, China, handed a suspended death sentence to telecom executive Shi Wanzhong
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
