Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly ...

Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death July 10, pushing this year's number of foreigners executed past 100 — a spike in ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

As the ninth World Day against the Death Penalty raises the awareness of the inhumanity of the law and calls for an end to capital punishment - we take a look at the five countries that carried out ...

The number of offences facing capital punishment will be almost halved from an original ... The number of executions has not been made public, but Amnesty International estimates more than 1,200 ...

Capital punishment is not retribution enough Some people who believe in the notion of retribution are against capital punishment because they feel the death penalty provides insufficient retribution.

A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for fraud totalling $27 billion will no longer face execution, her lawyer ...

Zimbabwe, whose president once faced the death penalty himself, abolished capital punishment after its senate approved a bill in December last year.