A total of four people charged with drug trafficking have been hanged in Rafsanjan and Jiroft prisons (both located in the Kerman province, southeastern Iran), according to a report by the Iranian state-run media news agency ISNA.
one of Somali soldiers, who has intentionally slain a fighter loyal to Ahlu Sunna Waljama
A local Al-Qaeda leader – named Saddam Hussein – was sentenced to hang by a
a prisoner was hanged at Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur district north of Dhaka city, Bangladesh.
Three young men were hanged publicly in the Azadi (Freedom) Square of Kermanshah in
Iraqi lawmakers on Saturday called the country's presidency not to approve the execution of
The Dalai Lama has praised Illinois for recently abolishing the death penalty. That
China executed two former local government officials for taking tens of millions of dollars in
Iranian authorities have hanged another 30 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on drug
a South Korean government source said North Korea had reportedly purged 30 officials who
a Saudi man was beheaded in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after being convicted of sexually assaulting another man's wife.
in Pakistan, Sahiwal Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahbaz Ahmad
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
