Matthew Eric Wrinkles was executed at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Wrinkles, 49, white, was

five people have been recently executed in Iran for murder and armed robbery.

a woman in southwest China, Zhao Qingmei, was executed in Guizhou province after her

Judge Wael Al-Atiqi of the Kuwaiti Criminal Court sentenced Egyptian butcher, S. Radhi, to death for

Chief Justice Ivor Archie of the Trinidad & Tobago Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of Marlon Taitt

Egypt said that it will not abolish the death penalty because it is a deterrent, even though human rights

ten young Iranian men, including eight teenagers, are currently awaiting execution for sodomy, Hossein

A man was beheaded and then crucified in the Saudi Arabian city of Hail.

Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti-gay bill

China executed a former securities trader for embezzlement.

a convicted killer in Ohio became the first person in the United States to be executed with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection. The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are euthanized, has been hailed by most experts as painless and an improvement over the three-drug cocktail used in all other states that employ lethal injection, but it is unlikely to settle the debate over the death penalty.

China sentenced three more people to death for murder and other crimes committed in riots in the western