A group of U.N. human rights experts demanded that Egypt halt the planned executions of six men sentenced to death on the basis of forced confessions.

Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court, presided by Ali Khalifah al-Dhahrani, delivered the death verdicts to Sayed Ahmed Fouad al-Abar and Hussein Ali Mahdi, sentenced two other defendants to life imprisonment and passed prison sentences ranging from 3 to 10 years to eight others, Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported.

A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he believed would banish evil spirits that possessed them.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation confirmed the death sentence for six university students.

China's latest cybersecurity law came into force last week and the sky did not fall and companies have not shuttered.

A Bahrain court sentenced to death one person and another to life in prison over a 2016 bombing that killed a woman in a Shiite-majority village.

Military court has sentenced Mohamed Adan Borow, to death penalty after he alleged the killing of a famous cleric in Baidoa mosque.

In a landmark judgment related to "honour killing", the Nashik district sessions court sentenced a man to death for killing his pregnant daughter in 2013 because she had married outside their caste.

Kuwait's highest court overturned the death sentence imposed by a lower tribunal against a man convicted of

The High Court of the Somali Armed Forces passed a verdict of death sentence this morning to one of the suspects for the murder of Abass Siraj, a former Federal Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction of Somalia.

A court in Rae Bareli (UP) awarded death sentence to a man for murdering a middle-aged couple in 2010.

Eight Vietnamese, including two women, received death sentence after a court in the northern province of Hoa Binh found them guilty of trafficking 541 packs of heroin, the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported, citing the court verdict.