Florida executes death-row inmate, third in US in 24 hours
Florida put to death a convicted double killer, the third execution in 24 hours in the United States, amid a raging controversy over lethal injection methods.
Death sentences reversed in China rape case
A Chinese court overturned death sentences imposed on two men who allegedly forced into prostitution the daughter of a social campaigner, media reported Friday, the latest development in the high-profile case.
US condemns Sudan over Christian woman's death penalty
US Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Sudan on Thursday for sentencing a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, urging Khartoum to repeal its laws banning Muslims from converting.
N. Korea sentences S. Korean 'spy' to hard labour for life
North Korea sentenced a South Korean missionary to hard labour for life after accusing him of espionage and setting up an underground church, state media said Saturday, the latest Christian preacher to run into trouble in the secretive state.
China sentences mining tycoon to death
A Chinese court on Friday convicted a mining billionaire said to have links with former security tsar Zhou Yongkang of murder and sentenced him to death.
Teenager test case in Maldives death penalty revival
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder over a fatal stabbing in the Maldives, becoming the first minor to be accused of a capital offence since the death penalty was reintroduced, officials said.
Pakistan couple gets death over 'blasphemous' text message
A court in eastern Pakistan has sentenced a Christian couple to death for sending a blasphemous text message insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, their lawyer said Saturday.
FBI wanted Boston bombing suspect 'to be informant'
The defense for accused Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say the FBI approached his brother and fellow suspect Tamerlan about becoming an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community.
Japan public sceptical on death penalty: study
Japan's public is less enthusiastic about capital punishment than government research shows, a new study has claimed, amid an acceleration in the rate of executions under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Kazakhstan has no need for death penalty: criminal law expert
I believe that life-long sentence is a severe enough punishment and the restrictions it imposes on a person are tough enough to view it as a real alternative to death penalty: Kazakhstan professor of criminal law.
Kazakhstan MPs suggest removing death penalty from Criminal Code
In December 2003 Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev introduced an unlimited moratorium on capital punishment.
China doctor guilty of baby trafficking
A Chinese court on Tuesday convicted an obstetrician of abducting newborn babies and gave her a suspended death sentence.
Bangladesh top court orders senior Islamist to hang
Bangladesh's top court Tuesday sentenced to death a senior Islamist opposition official for murder during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.
US court martial sentences Fort Hood shooter to death
A military jury sentenced a US Army officer to death Wednesday for carrying out an Al-Qaeda inspired mass shooting on the Fort Hood base in Texas that left 13 dead.
US convict who was 'too fat to execute' dies in jail
A 485-pound (220-kilogram) convicted murderer who escaped execution after his lawyers argued he was too fat to be put to death has died in prison.
New York court sentences cop killer to death
A US federal court in New York on Wednesday sentenced convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson to death by lethal injection for a second time.
Suspended death for China ex-minister's 'huge' bribery
China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death sentence Monday for "especially huge" bribery.
Texas executes 500th inmate since death penalty reinstated
The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th convict since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a record in a country where capital punishment is in decline elsewhere.
Execution-free world getting closer: Amnesty
The use of the death penalty is broadly diminishing around the world although a handful of countries that had not used capital punishment for several years resumed executions in 2012.
US to see first electric chair execution since 2010
An American who murdered two fellow inmates to speed up his execution faces death on the electric chair Wednesday, the first execution of its kind since 2010, authorities.
