Somalia's hardline Shebab Islamists publicly executed two people accused of spying for the US Central
Tetsuya Shiroo’s death sentence for murdering Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Ito was commuted to life
fifty participants representing different African Union member states and national human rights commissions appealed to African countries to emulate Rwanda and abolish the death penalty.
One woman was hanged in the prison of Sarakhs, north-east Iran, reported the state run Iranian news
the nigerian Federal Government recommended death penalty for fake drugdealers.
an appeal against one of the two death sentences imposed this year in Belarus will be heard by the Supreme
Officials in Kyrgyzstan called for the death penalty to be reinstated and said public executions could be
A court in north-western Tanzania sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy.
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has promised to carry out the "death penalty" to curtail increasing cases
Christopher Coleman, 37, black, was executed in Texas. He was 1 of 3 men convicted in connection with a drug-related shootings on Dec. 14, 1995 that claimed 3 lives.
the Nigerian Federal Government might be unable to save the 57 Nigerians facing the death row in different
the UN Human Rights Committee called on the Tanzanian Government to seriously consider abolishing
