A 51-year-old man was executed by lethal injection in Texas for the February 1986 murder of a young sales clerk as he robbed a convenience store.

Iranian authorities hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking and murder

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi national for a murder resulting from a

at a court in Damanhur, Egypt, Judge Mahmoud Selim sentenced 24 men to death for a shootout in May 2008.

a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded in Riyadh after being convicted of murder, the

an Iraqi provincial court sentenced two members of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's

eight men were hanged in Iran for murder and drug trafficking.

eight Islamist militants still on the run were sentenced to death by an Algerian

A man convicted of battering his girlfriend's 8-year-old son and stuffing the body in a freezer was put to death in Oklahoma, while a man in Alabama was executed for fatally stabbing a mother of six.

Amnesty International said that Ifraah Ali Aden, 30, is in imminent danger of being

Authorities in Iran hanged two people convicted of drug trafficking in the northern city of Qazvin, the government newspaper Iran reported.

The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill that replaces the state's