A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of shooting dead a policeman

Arab and African nations succeeded in getting a U.N. General Assembly panel to delete from

China executed a local official six years after he was convicted of illegally selling hundreds

Iran set a date for the execution of female prisoner Shahla Jahed, the Human

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed legislation that would have reinstated executions

at an appeal trial the Vietnamese People’s Supreme Court confirmed Nguyen Duc Nghia's death

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said he would never sign former deputy premier Tareq Aziz's

a Japanese jury trial sent a man to the gallows for a double murder in the country's first death

Radical parliamentarian and Hands Off Cain treasurer Elisabetta Zamparutti today presented an urgent interrogation to the Council President and the Health Minister.

China's Supreme People's Court approved the death penalty of three men, it said in a

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland granted clemency to Sidney Cornwell a day before scheduled

One man was hanged in the prison of Ahvaz, southwest of Iran.