A High Court Division Bench in Bangladesh has upheld death sentence for six militants for 2005 deadly bombings at a court in Gazipur district adjacent to capital Dhaka leaving eight people including four lawyers dead.
Thailand’s Justice Ministry says it has no plan to execute rapists who murder their victims, saying such a harsh penalty would provoke more rapists to kill.
Palliative care expert suggests that preparations should be made to allow elderly to end their life in care homes before considering death at home.
Indonesia plans to put 16 convicts to death after next month’s Muslim Eid holiday, an official said on Tuesday, confirming executions were set to resume after a hiatus.
A Los Angeles jury recommended the death penalty on Monday for the former sanitation worker they convicted of carrying out a string of murders dating back three decades as the so-called "Grim Sleeper" serial killer.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for 24 Hindus convicted of playing a role in the massacre of Muslims during the Gujarat religious riots in 2002, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state.
Renowned Chinese writer Yang Jiang, known for her prolific output and marriage to an equally famous author, died Wednesday at age 105, state media said.
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor had been killed by a U.S. military drone inside the Pakistani town of Dalbandin in the southern Balochistan province on Saturday, with the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) and U.S. President Barack Obama both confirming his death.
China’s minister in charge of the police has vowed to crack down on abuse of power by officers amid widespread public concerns prompted by the death of a man in custody in Beijing earlier this month.
Afghan Taliban top leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike launched at a small town in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan along the Pak-Afghan border, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY on Sunday.
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Indian parliament (the country's lawmaking body) Monday passed the Anti-Hijacking Bill-2016 that provides death penalty to the hijackers even if ground handling staff and airport personnel are killed during such hijacking bids, officials said.
Pakistan's Army Chief General Raheel Sharif confirmed the death sentence on Tuesday to another group of 11 "hardcore terrorists" who were handed the capital punishment by military courts for committing heinous offences relating to terrorism, the military said.
The sudden death of a 14-year-old boy at a factory in Foshan city, Guangdong province, has triggered a citywide campaign against the exploitation of child laborers in the Pearl River Delta hub.
Locals and tourists wondering what is it like to die and be reborn can try out the death simulator, a two-hour experience at a Chinese amusement park that gives people an idea of what it is like to be cremated.
Four death row convicts have been were executed in Kohat Central Jail for their involvement in attack on Army Public School (APS) Peshawar in which more than 140 people most of them children were martyred.
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