According to official reports by state run media Hamshahri Online, two prisoners who were sentenced to
Two people convicted of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in Mauritania were given the death
Glenford Baptist, 44, has a new lease on life after being told this morning that his sentence of death by hanging will be commuted.
Zimbabwe no longer has female prisoners on death row in compliance with the new constitution.
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu reduced the sentence of 332 prisoners awaiting death by hanging to life imprisonment to ease maximum security prison congestion.
A Bangladeshi special court handed down the latest in a line of death sentences to a former political
The Knesset voted down a bill proposed by Yisrael Beytenu that would have enabled judges to more easily sentence a terrorist to death.
Noting that poor and downtrodden usually go to the gallows, Chairman of the Law Commission of India
David Zink, 55, White, has been executed.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has blocked, at least temporarily, a bill which would require judges to
President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent offenders, including five serving life sentences, saying “their punishments didn’t fit the crime.”
Cutting across the party lines, the members of Parliament (MPs) and political leaders favoured the abolition
