A resolution calling for an immediate moratorium on the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia

A Cairo court sentenced in absentia a policeman to death for the murder of protesters during

the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Larijani, announced that "hoodlums and

Tunisia is moving towards the abolition of the death penalty and joining the International

Morocco is moving gradually towards the abolition of the death penalty and the

An Indonesian maid convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia has been spared execution by beheading after the Indonesian government paid Rp 4.6 billion ($534,000) in “blood money."

The state Supreme Court today halted the executions of three inmates who are challenging

Georgia executed by lethal injection a man convicted of raping and murdering a 78-year-old Savannah woman.

judge Indradeo Mishra of the Giridih additional district and sessions court in India

A Miami federal judge ruled that the way Florida courts mete out the death penalty is unconstitutional

the Intermediate People's Court of the city of Hengyang in China's Hunan Province sentenced

the Giza Criminal Court in Egypt sentenced Mahmoud Suweilam, the Arab Contractors bus driver