Three men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in the town of Arak in central

Somalia's hardline Shebab militia beheaded two men for supporting

Li Zhi, the Communist party secretary in Urumqi, China, said "to people suspected of

A Saudi criminal court has convicted and sentenced an al-Qaida militant to death and

A Yemeni court sentenced three rebels from a Shi'ite Muslim sect to death after

Papua New Guinea's attorney-general Alan Marat says he is waiting for guidelines to be

a Yemeni man was executed by firing squad in a public square after being convicted of raping and murdering a boy.

India's top court has refused to replace hanging with lethal injection as the country's

Yemen’s penal court chaired by Judge Mohsen Mohammed Alwan issued death penalties against seven defendants of the so called “subversive gang”, an affiliate of the Houthis in Bani Hushaish District, some 30 kilometres north of the capital Sana’a.

the Ho High Court in Ghana, presided over by Mr Justice Kofi Essel Mensah,

two men were hanged in the Adelabard prison of Shiraz early morning, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Etemad.

Iran hanged 20 drug traffickers, official media reported.