Despite the pressure by the international human right organizations, the Iraqi government continues to execute and hang convicts.

Zimbabwe’s acting President and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, reiterated he wanted the death penalty “totally” abolished by the Constitution.

The beheading of a gang leader in Saudi Arabia raised the number of executions carried out this year to 44, already more than half the total for 2014.

A Farmer has been sentenced to death by the Wa High Court after he was found guilty of murdering a 43-year old famer at Daffiama in the Upper West region.

Prison authorities in Faisalabad hanged two death row prisoners convicted of murder and rape, bringing to 27 the number of executions in Pakistan since it resumed capital punishment in December.

Manuel Vasquez, 46, Hispanic, was executed in Texas.

The Senate voted 18-10 to carry out a death sentence by firing squad, if the state cannot track down drugs

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Three people were beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking.

A man convicted of a triple murder – Mohammad Siddique – was hanged at the District Jail in the city of Toba Tek Singh in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

six people were executed by hanging in the prison of Nassiriya, security sources reported.

The Judiciary Committee voted 8-0 to abolish death penalty.