An ally of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has received a suspended death sentence
Indonesia put to death a Malawian drug trafficker, the government said, in the country's first execution for several years.
In Qatar, a bench of the Doha Criminal Court has unanimously sentenced a drug trafficker to death
A military official was stoned to death in Pakistan after he was caught trying to elope with
The House of Delegates passed (82-56) a bill (HB 295) to abolish the death penalty in Maryland for future crimes. The same bill passed the Maryland Senate on March 6.
In a fast-track trial, a man was sentenced to death by a court in India for raping and killing an
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has suspended executions of Filipinos for three months, giving a Filipino
in Sri Lanka, the Monaragala High Court sentenced to death 5 people over a shooting incident
An Algeria court sentenced a former police commissioner to death for murdering
Five men found guilty of killing four staff of the Tobruk branch of the Bank of North Africa
Iran hanged four Afghan prisoners on Monday in Vakil Abad Prison in northeastern
Two men sentenced to death for drug dealing had their sentence commuted to four years
