The state of Texas executed David Powell, 59, for the murder of a police officer 32 years ago, after having lost a series of lengthy appeals and requests for clemency.
in the United Arab Emirates, presiding Judge of the Fujairah Criminal Court of First Instance Saeed Abdullah Masoud sentenced an UAE national to death for murdering his wife in 2009 in the Roll Dedna area.
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
