Last week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his plans to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in his country in 2006. Duterte says he believes in retribution: If you kill someone, you deserve to die. Some people are shocked by this rationale, but they ...
An Iranian delegation has left Saudi Arabia without an agreement for its citizens to attend the Muslim hajj pilgrimage this year, Saudi media have reported, a second failure by the rival Middle East powers to strike a deal. Relations between the two countries plummeted after ...
Two death row inmates were hanged Friday morning, according to the Justice Ministry, bringing to 16 the number of executions carried out under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration since taking power in 2012. The two prisoners were Yasutoshi Kamata, 75, and Junko Yoshida, 56. Yoshida ...
The executions cast a spotlight on the moral and emotional burden of nonprofessionals being asked to hand down death sentences.
Al-Qaida militants in Yemen killed two men accused of spying for the United States and hung their bodies off a bridge on Wednesday, a day after the jihadi group announced the death of its leader in a U.S. drone strike. Witnesses said al-Qaida gunmen in ...
North Korea has confirmed to its overseas diplomatic missions that its defense minister, Gen. Hyon Yong Chol, was executed, a Seoul daily reported on Monday, citing a source in Beijing. North Korea recently informed embassies in China and elsewhere of Hyon's execution and listed several ...
Missouri officials were preparing on Tuesday to execute a man who wasn't able to appeal his conviction in federal court because his attorneys missed a filing deadline. Mark Christeson was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for the killing of a woman and her ...
A would-be robber who torched five Takefuji employees in 2001 and a yakuza who gunned down three people from 2001 to 2005 are executed for murder.
Under growing pressure from a government offensive, the rebel leadership in Ukraine's battle-torn east warned its fighters on Monday that desertion and betrayal could be met by execution. The warning appeared to signal a growing concern by the leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ...
China has executed a Japanese man in his 50s who had been sentenced to death in connection with stimulant drug smuggling. In Tokyo, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said China notified Japan that the execution took place Friday morning. The man was sentenced to death in December ...
A 68-year-old death row inmate is hanged for killing three people seven years ago, including children, despite growing unease about capital punishment.
A convicted murderer is hanged for robbing and gunning down the owner of a restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown in May 2004.
