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

a female land agent was sentenced to death in Ho Chi Minh City for bribery, cover-up and trickery. The

a court in Tehran sentenced to death Tahmineh Danesh, 35, a Kurdish woman arrested two years ago for murdering a man who was

The Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris concluded with a message from Pope

an officer and a sergeant from the border guard patrol in North Korea have been sentenced to execution for

the death penalty is under what may be an unprecedented review in the United States, mostly involving