Niger has a “historic opportunity” to abolish the death penalty in a new constitution that will be voted
five people were hanged in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz early in the morning, reported the state run Iranian news agency FARS.
A nationwide shortage of several anesthesia drugs has left several states scrambling to
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on August 28 that she was to be hanged at dawn the day after, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.
in Afghanistan's western Nimroz Province, the Taliban beheaded an unidentifed man...
in the United Arab Emirates, Afghan national MK, 22, was sentenced to death
Under the Racial Justice Act 147 of the 159 inmates on death row
Judge Datuk Zamani A. Rahim of the Malaysian High Court sentenced salesman Raja Saiful Nizam Raja
Indian President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 75- year- old Shobhit
A senior Malaysian minister reportedly urged the government to abolish the death
Jamaican Supreme Court Justice Horace March sentenced ex-soldier Leslie Moodie
The Tokyo Detention House opened its execution chamber to the media, giving the public its first peek at the place where death-row inmates are hanged.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
