Sessions courts handed down nearly twice as many death sentences in 2016 as compared to 2015,
A former Algerian police colonel was sentenced to death for gunning down the national police chief Ali Tounsi during an office meeting in 2010, national news agency APS said.
Colombia's government is protesting China's execution of a retired journalist who was sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into the Asian country.
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced Oluwaseun Oladapo to death by hanging for the murder of Mr. Kunle Fadipe, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer.
The human rights committee of Egypt's parliament said it will never recommend that the death penalty be
A 33-year-old Indonesian man was sentenced to death by the High Court in Tawau for trafficking in 707 grams of syabu.
A man who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in 2009 has received a second chance at life after Selangor Ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah granted him a pardon.
The Kabul appeal court sentenced a man to death who was found guilty of killing his pregnant wife seven
The Botswana government has no plans to amend the law governing the death penalty, Defence, Justice and Security Minister Shaw Kgathi told parliament.
A Lagos High Court in Ikeja sentenced a man, Sulaiman Olalekan, to death by hanging for the murder of his
A 19-year-old Pakistani student was handed the death penalty for stabbing to death a countryman in a row over a football match.
The People’s Court in Hanoi sentenced Tran Van Liem, former director general of Vinashin Ocean
