The State High Court, Nembe Division, Bayelsa State, has sentenced a former police officer, Mr. Matthew

The Iranian regime has hanged three prisoners including a woman in the Lorestan province.

A court in Rawalpindi (Pakistan) sentenced a self-proclaimed prophet to death after convicting him of

the Seoul-based Yonhap news agency reported that all relatives of the executed uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had also been put to death at the leader's instruction.

The House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed a bill today that would make electrocution the default

Kenneth Eugene Hogan, 52, White, was executed in Oklahoma.

The Iranian regime executed seven prisoners in the central prison of the city of Kermanshah in western

In Nigeria, a Jos High Court sentenced a 23-year-old man, Harisu Abdullahi, to death by hanging for

Iraq hanged another 11 people convicted of terrorist offences, the Justice Ministry said, pursuing what a U.N. official has criticized as a "conveyor-belt of executions".

some MPs in the Kazakhstan’s Majilis (lower chamber) suggested the death penalty be removed from the

Edgar Tamayo, a Mexican national whose case gained international attention, was executed for the 1994 murder of a Houston policeman.

Home Minister Umar Naseer issued an order on Correctional Services to make preparations to implement