In Pakistan, additional Sessions Judge Chaudhry Zafar Iqbal awarded death sentences to two

A fast track court in Jammu and Kashmir, India, awarded the death penalty to an accused charged

A former senior official of the Hohhot railway bureau in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been

Myanmar's president commuted the death sentences of some convicts and slashed the jail terms of others

mediation efforts by Tabuk Emir Prince Fahd Bin Sultan paved the way for the family of a murder

a newspaper reported a Saudi prince who murdered a fellow Saudi may be executed, in a rare example of a

at least 169 people were put to death in 2013, by far the country's highest such figure since the 2003 US-led invasion, and one that puts it third in the world, behind just China and Iran.

four prisoners convicted of murder were hanged in the central prison of Orumieh, reported the Human

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man after he was convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, the

Two prisoners convicted of murder were hanged in the prison of Mashhad, reported the

Zambia’s President Sata, in a Christmas gesture, released two prisoners and commuted life sentences

Eighteen people were executed in Iran between 16 and 18 December 2013, in three different cities.