A Pakistani court condemned a man to death for blasphemy, believed to be the first such sentence

As many as 21 death row convicts were pardoned in Bangladesh by the President in about four

Iran hanged 45 prisoners, bringing the total number of executions this year in that country

A Pakistani soldier sentenced to death four years ago become the first man to be executed in the country for almost four years. Muhammed Hussain was condemned in 2008 for murdering his senior officer. He was hanged at a jail in Mianwali city, Punjab province, early in the morning. All his appeals for mercy were rejected.

Three prisoners were hanged publicly in Arak (central Iran) this morning, reported the Iranian

In Nigeria, Delta State House of Assembly passed a bill stipulating death sentence

Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin insisted that his ministry has no intention of reinstating the death penalty despite strong suggestions by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that capital punishment could return to Turkey.

Iran sent 35 prisoners to the gallows in a collective execution carried out in the northwestern

Brett Hartman, 38, white, was executed in Ohio for the Sept. 9, 1997 death of Winda Snipes

In Pakistan, Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Khairpur gave capital sentence to 15 accused

Two guards of vice president Tareq al-Hashemi were sentenced by an Iraqi court to death for planting a

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would consider bringing back capital punishment in terror related crimes, a decade after it abolished the practice.