Antigua is to begin actively enforcing the death penalty after a 22-year lull.
The Delhi High Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence given by a trial court
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his call for a global moratorium on applying
Five men who stood indicted on charges of having murdered a 65-year-old resident of Walakumburegama
In Nigeria, the Senate descended heavily on terrorism perpetrators as it recommended a capital
In Maryland, the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approves Senate Bill 276, a measure
A court in Jabalpur, India, awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing a seven year old
A court in Herat, Afghanistan, handed a death sentence to two men who were charged with kidnapping and
The High Court in Banjul convicted and sentenced two men, namely Saikou Ceesay and Abdou
Andrew Allen Cook, 38, white, was executed in Georgia.
According to reports at least 80 Afghan civilians have been hanged by Iran over drugs and opium smuggling charges.
The special court for crimes committed in Darfur, headed by judge Tarig Khalil, sentenced six