Singapore on Friday hanged a 45-year-old citizen for drug trafficking, the city-state's first execution of a woman in nearly 20 years, officials said.The execution was carried out despite appeals from rights groups, who argue capital punishment has n...

Iran executed Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab for "terrorism" on Saturday, according to the judiciary."The death sentence for Habib Chaab... nicknamed Habib Asyud, the head of Harakat al-Nidal terrorist group... was executed today, Saturday mor...

A wave of executions has been sweeping Iran amid international condemnation and national outrage.Top executionerIran has a lengthy history of being a top global executioner. But critics claim the dictatorship has elevated the death penalty to a new l...

By AFPIran has sentenced to death three people accused of killing three members of the security forces during the protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary said Monday.The Islamic republic has been rocked by civil unrest since the...

By AFPIran on Monday executed a second man in connection with protests that have shaken the regime for months, defying an international outcry over its use of capital punishment against those involved in the movement.Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, had been...

By AFPIran on Monday executed a second man convicted in connection with protests that have shaken the regime for almost three months, defying an international outcry over its use of capital punishment against those involved in the movement.Majidreza...

By AFPIran carried out its first known execution Thursday over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, hanging a man convicted of blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary member.Demonstrations have swept Iran for nearly three months since Amini...

By AFPAn Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public on Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such a sentence since the hardline Islamists returned to power."The supreme court was instructed to implement this order of qisas...

By AFPIran on Sunday put to death four people accused of working with Israel's intelligence service, the judiciary said."This morning, the sentences of four main members of the gang of mobsters related to the Zionist intelligence service were execute...

By AFPIran is carrying out executions at a "horrifying pace" in state-approved killings on a mass scale that constitutes an "abhorrent assault" on the right to life, two rights groups said on Wednesday.The Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Centr...

By AFPThe UN human rights chief on Monday condemned the execution of four prisoners, including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, as "cruel and regressive"."I am dismayed that despite appeals from across the wor...