Richard Stokley, 60, white, was executed in Arizona for the July 8, 1991 rape and murder of two 13 year old girls, Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder.

In Japan, the Tottori District Court sentenced a 38-year-old bar worker to death for killing

A man in Zhangye city, Gansu province, was sentenced to death by a local court after

At least 970 inmates in Nigerian prisons are on death row, awaiting their execution. This

George Ochoa, 38, Hispanic, was executed in Oklahoma.

In Afghanistan, the Appellant Court of western Herat province awarded death sentence to three

The Chinese national who killed three women in a flat in Yishun three years ago was

In a first case of pardon by President Pranab Mukherjee after assuming office, death sentence

four prisoners, including one woman, were hanged in Kermanshah (Western Iran).

Iran has suspended the death sentence for a computer programmer convicted on charges of running a pornographic website after he "repented for his actions," his lawyer was quoted as saying.

This year, the United States should not exceed the number of executions of the past few years, and then confirm the positive trend.

A death verdict was issued in Iraq against the second deputy governor and former