the Ministry of Justice announced it had drafted a roadmap for human rights protection (National Action

Royston Alfred, convicted of murdering his partner three years ago on D'Urban Street, was sentenced to

three Iraqi women were handed execution

the House of Representatives voted to repeal the death penalty in New Mexico on a 41-28 decision.

the Iraqi High Court sentenced Saddam Hussein's former vice president to death by hanging, despite appeals from UN officials and international human rights groups.

The Iraqi government said 14 convicted terrorists were executed for murder, kidnappings and rape in five of

an London-based appeals court has overturned death sentences for 13 prisoners convicted of killing

China executed an alleged Muslim separatist with a bullet through the heart. Ismail Semed, an Uighur from

the U.N. human rights chief filed an unprecedented legal challenge with Iraq's highest court against a possible death sentence for one of Saddam Hussein's former deputies.

a Vietnamese court sentenced three people to death and jailed 52 others for running a huge heroin

a man was executed by lethal injection in Texas for strangling his wife and two stepdaughters a decade ago. James Lewis Jackson, a 47-year-old gardener, was the fourth inmate put to death this year in Texas, which has the highest execution rate in the US.

the Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded two Iraqi men, Jabbar Karim Saeed Abu Alya and Ali Hamza