A Saudi court imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi for 10 years for "insulting Islam" and setting up a liberal web

The Supreme Court upheld death sentences against 10 people accused of committing gruesome and callous

An Abu Dhabi criminal court sentenced an Asian housemaid to death by stoning after she was found guilty

Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Qom (south of Tehran) early this morning, reported the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

Oklahoma’s Attorney General has agreed to a 6-month stay of execution for Charles Warner, a death row

A scathing new report by a bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts said some chemicals used to execute

At least four prisoners have been executed in Iran in the last days.

Two Palestinians were executed in the Gaza Strip as Israeli spies, the enclave’s Islamist Hamas government

A Nigerian national has been sentenced to death by a Malaysian court for trafficking

An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City increased the sentence of a former prison guard from life to death for

In Kuwait, the Criminal Court presided over by Justice Waleed Al-Kandari sentenced two Egyptian

According to reports by sources in Afghanistan a juvenile offender has recently been executed in Iran. The Dari section of Radio Liberty (Radio Azadi), reported that a 15 year old Afghan boy identified as Jannat Mir was among the six Afghan citizens who were executed in the Dastgerd prison of Isfahan in April.