Justice Essel Mensah of the Ho High Court in Ghana sentenced Emmanuel Adzanku

Iran agreed to review its widely condemned policy of executing juvenile criminals

Saudi Arabian national Hanni al-Barqawi was executed by beheading in Mecca

in Uganda, Lt. Col. Eugene Ssebugwawo, who chaired the

Qatar amended a key provision of the penal code to extensively define torture

One man was hanged in public in the town of Sarab, northwest Iran. According to the

Taliban militants in Afghanistan executed a seven-year-old boy on suspicion of spying

Iranian authorities executed seven Afghan refugees, their relatives in western Herat province

the death sentence against 30-year-old Emirati, Rashid Al Rashidi, was finalised

a Chinese Supreme People's Court (SPC) official said courts must apply the

the Pakistani Taliban staged a public execution in North Waziristan after an Islamic court convicted the

in the United Arab Emirates, an Abu Dhabi court sentenced five foreigners to death in two separate