death penalty

Pakistan on Wednesday executed a man who was 15 when he was sentenced to death for murder and whose lawyers…

A prominent lawyer has called for the bodies of terrorist convicts to be burned after execution. Speaking to Al-Assema satellite channel…

James Moran, the European Union's ambassador to Cairo, said in a recent statement that the European Union is against the…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern on Monday at an Egyptian court decision to seek the death penalty for…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan criticised Egypt over a court decision to seek the death penalty for ousted Islamist president Mohamed…

An Egyptian court sentenced 22 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday over an attack on a police…

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the suspension of death sentences passed by military courts set up this year after…

Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the…

Three Shia Muslim men were sentenced to death by a Bahrain court on Thursday and seven others were given a…

An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, the English-language daily…