Thailand has executed its first prisoner since 2009, the Department of Corrections said
Myanmar’s parliament voted down a proposal to give the death penalty to convicted child rapists
Five prisoners who were sentenced to death on murder charges were hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison.
An Egyptian criminal court referred the preliminary death sentences of 11 members of the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood organization
Justice Abdul-Azeez Waziri of the Yola High Court sentenced five men to death by hanging
The government of Ethiopia has said it will release more than 304 prisoners, including 289 convicted on "terrorism" charges, according to state media.
Iran has executed a member of a Sufi order who rammed a bus into police as they tried to disperse a rally, killing three of them.
South Korea is pushing for a presidential declaration on the abolition of capital punishment, the state human rights watchdog said,
WHILE APPEALS CONSIDERED
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KILLED 8 CHILDREN
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is an iranian writer and political activist condemned to six years of prison for having written a script, not published, that criticized the practice of stoning in Iran.
