in Pakistan, Kasur Additional District and Sessions Judge Jazila Aslam sentenced Sarja, Rehmat

a man in Japan who has spent 43 years on death row and is 75 today, should be granted

Taiwan's cabinet approved revisions of four laws to drop the death penalty for some crimes, including

Taiwan's Justice Minister pledged that he will not suspend the implementation of the

“The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois signals a change in all the United States. It shows

Ohio put to death the killer of a Toledo store owner with the country's first-ever use of pentobarbital

Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty today, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men.

Presiding Justice Kiyoko Okabe of the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the death penalty

in Jhelum, Pakistan, Additional Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Zargham sentenced Malik Ashraf

Justice Datuk Abdul Alim Abdullah of the Malaysian High Court sentenced unemployed

Iran hanged three Afghan nationals in a prison in Tehran after they were found guilty of raping an Afghan

Somalia’s al Shabaab group executed Abdullahi Hajji Mohammed and Abdinasir Hussein Ali at Maslah