Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 19:21
Seven "Christian foreigners" taken hostage by a Nigerian Islamic terror group are feared to have been executed, a British daily said on Sunday.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 17:46
A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheadings as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 23:06
Ohio on Wednesday executed a man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multistate crime spree nearly 20 years ago.
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 13:47
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday extended till April 6 the stay on the execution of Saibanna Ningappa Natekar, who was sentenced to death for murdering his two wives and a daughter.
Last Updated: Friday, February 22, 2013, 11:57
Japan executed three inmates who had been sentenced to death, marking the first executions since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 23:35
Christian clergy from Sri Lanka`s ethnic Tamil-majority north are asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to push for an independent international inquiry into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka`s civil war.
Last Updated: Monday, February 18, 2013, 12:15
The SC stayed till further orders the execution of death sentence of four aides of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, who were awarded capital punishment in 2004 for a landmine blast that left 22 police personnel dead.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 00:32
In a show of strength in the Pakistani capital, several banned anti-India militant groups, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed vowed to take "revenge" for the execution of Afzal Guru.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 20:05
Left parties on Wednesday questioned the "secretive" manner in which Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 19:39
PM Manmohan Singh has expressed his displeasure to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over the delay in informing Afzal Guru`s family about his hanging.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 17:41
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) convenor and Janata Dal- United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav said the government should consider the request of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s family to return his body to them.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 10:41
Curfew was Wednesday lifted from three police station areas in the city while it was relaxed "indefinitely" in five other police station areas even as rest of Kashmir Valley remained under restrictions.
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