A leaked internal memo shows how Saudi officials commuted 1,200 death row inmates

Ex-Illinois governor George Ryan set for halfway house after 6 years in prison. For the last

the Somali military court executed two government soldiers convicted of murder and

Tareq Aziz, the late Saddam Hussein's ailing former deputy premier now on death

At the meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on crime prevention this morning, Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang said Vietnam would produce poison to serve the policy on conducting the death penalty by lethal injection.

King Mswati III's Swaziland government is in search of a hangman so prisoners presently on death row

In Malaysia, a Nigerian man was sentenced to death by hanging by the High Court today after

An Indonesian court sentenced a British woman to death for attempting to smuggle drugs into the resort island of Bali.

An Algerian court sentenced to death the fugitive head of Al-Qaeda's North Africa

Bangladesh will drop plans to impose the death penalty for counterfeiting, a central bank

Six men have been executed in public in Iran in the last days.

A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced a former leader of the country’s largest Islamic