Pakistan's Supreme Court delayed an appeal into a blasphemy case against a Christian mother on death row as one of the judges stepped down, with thousands of security forces deployed after threats from Muslim clerics.
Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal to stop the hanging of a death row prisoner diagnosed with a mental illness, officials said on Tuesday.
Six Afghan Taliban inmates on death row were hanged on Sunday, government sources said, in the first set of executions endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani ...
Saudi Arabia executed one of its nationals convicted of murder on Sunday, bringing to 72 the number of people put to death in the kingdom this year.
The US state of Georgia executed its oldest death row inmate Wednesday, just days before his 73rd birthday, in a move critics denounced as emblematic of capital punishment's excesses.
