Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in the western city of Ahvaz, Fars news agency reported. The man was identified by his initials as A.A., he was arrested with 1.375 kilos of heroin.
The state of Mississippi on May 20 executed its second death row inmate
Four tomb robbers were sentenced to death for stealing more than 200 relics, including 11 items listed for the state's top level of protection, from ancient tombs in central China's Hunan Province.
eleven militia members were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for
in a landmark judgment, the Gauhati High Court in India commuted the death sentence
an Iraqi court awarded death sentence to 62 people linked to
Iran executed two men for drug trafficking in Isfahan Central Prison, FARS
the Palestinian movement Hamas executed three men convicted of murder in its Gaza enclave, the interior ministry said in a statement.
at a court in Grodno, Belarus, judge Pyotr Bandyk sentenced Aleg Gryshkautsou (29) and Andrei Burdyka (28), to death for the October murder of two women and a man during an armed robbery.
in Iran, Tehran’s Prosecutor General, Abbas Jaafari Dowlatabadi, announced that the death sentence
The lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks could be executed this year
The death sentence for six opposition activists arrested in protests after last year's