A well-known Kurdish political prisoner was executed in Miandoab’s Prison, reported the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

one man charged of drug smuggling was hanged in public in the city of Sari, Iran’s Mehr news agency

Saudi Arabia beheaded two of its citizens for murder, taking to 102 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.

An Egyptian court upheld a death sentence handed to former President Mohammed Morsi -- the harshest ruling yet against Egypt's first democratically-elected president since he was overthrown by the military in 2013.

in a closed-door meeting in Ouagadougou, the office of the Transitional National Council (TNC)

another nine murder convicts were hanged in different cities of Punjab, raising the total number of executions to at least 171 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre.

South Korean media reported that North Korea had dispatched official bulletins announcing the execution

A High Court judge in Gezawa, Kano State, ordered Wasila Tasi'u, a child forced to marry at just 13 who

according to official reports from the Department of Justice in Gilan, two prisoners were

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Syrian drug trafficker and a national convicted of murder, taking to 100 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.

An Egyptian court ordered the retrial of 16 people sentenced to death or long prison terms for their

A double murder convict was hanged in Multan’s central jail, days ahead of a one-month moratorium imposed on executions in the fasting month of Ramadan.