More than 8,000 prisoners sentenced to death by Pakistani courts over the past 20 years
the Maldives parliament (Majlis) resumed the debate on amending the Clemency Act
Antony Mutembei Njeru, Isaack Murimi Mwaniki and John Murithi Kivuti were
in Bangladesh, three people were sentenced to death for kidnapping and
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional District and Sessions Judge Jazila Aslam sentenced Sarja, Rehmat
a man in Japan who has spent 43 years on death row and is 75 today, should be granted
Taiwan's cabinet approved revisions of four laws to drop the death penalty for some crimes, including
Taiwan's Justice Minister pledged that he will not suspend the implementation of the
“The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois signals a change in all the United States. It shows
Ohio put to death the killer of a Toledo store owner with the country's first-ever use of pentobarbital
Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty today, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men.
Presiding Justice Kiyoko Okabe of the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the death penalty
On April 27, the State of Texas will carry out the death sentence on Melissa Lucio.