Om Prakash, 25, who stripped his aged parents before killing them, was convicted and sentenced

The Supreme Court of Belarus confirmed the death sentence for a man convicted of killing two people last year after police caught him transporting a decapitated head from one of the bodies.

A court in Barwani, India, handed down death sentence to three staffers of a bus and life imprisonment

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Mingora, Pakistan, awarded three times death sentence to two

Bangladesh's highest court has sentenced to death a leader of the main Islamist party convicted of crimes against humanity during the war for independence from Pakistan in 1971.

The news agency Boyernews reported that four men were arrested convicted of a rape and three

By a wide margin, Boston residents favor life without parole instead of the death penalty

Three of the prisoners were hanged in the prison of Ezna, in the west Iranian province of Lorestan.

For their alleged links to Boko Haram, some soldiers are to face death penalty while others will

In Malaysia, a high court outside the capital Kuala Lumpur found Bebou Akpo

The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Death Row, USA shows a continuation of

Italy is working to establish a group of countries that will resume the campaign for a moratorium on the death penalty in the world. This was announced by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino in the Senate during a press conference sponsored by Hands Off Cain and the Extraordinary Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, throwing an alarm on the record number of executions recorded in the last month in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and North Korea.