North Korea carries out public executions on riverbanks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued Wednesday said. The report, by a Seoul-based nongovernmental organization, said the often ...
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement executed three Palestinians on Thursday convicted of killing a commander in the Islamist group's armed wing while acting on Israel's orders. Hamas' military prosecutor said the three men admitted to receiving orders from Israeli intelligence officers to track and kill Mazen ...
Japan executed three people last year and imposed three new death sentences in what Amnesty International has also described as a secretive system. A global report on death sentences and executions for 2016 cited the executions last March of Yasutoshi Kamata, 75, and Junko Yoshida, ...
Ethics experts and human rights lawyers slammed the Vatican Tuesday for inviting a top Chinese health official to an organ trafficking summit despite concerns the Asian giant still uses tissue from executed prisoners. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences invited Huang Jiefu, the man in charge ...
A robber who murdered two people during break-ins in Kumamoto is hanged, marking the first execution signed by Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda.
North Korea has executed a vice premier for showing disrespect during a meeting presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, and banished two other officials for re-education, South Korea said Wednesday. If confirmed, they would be the latest in a series of killings, purges and ...
A human rights group says recorded executions worldwide surged by more than 50 percent last year to the highest level in a quarter-century.
Saudi Arabia announced Sunday it was severing diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse Iran amid escalating tensions over the Sunni kingdom's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric. The move came hours after protesters stormed and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and followed harsh ...
The executions of two death row inmates on Friday was a blow to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which only last week reiterated a call for a moratorium on hangings and for a national debate on the matter. In a position paper released on ...
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations on Wednesday condemned capital punishment as "inhumane" and called on Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki to set up an panel of experts to review the policy. It said the body should start a national debate about a practice already abandoned ...
Saudi police say they have seized more than 28 tons of hashish and some 22 million amphetamine pills over the past 12 months. The Interior Ministry said in a statement Sunday that police also seized more than 57 pounds (26 kg) of heroin. They also ...
Federal authorities have confiscated shipments of a lethal-injection chemical that Arizona and Texas tried to bring in from abroad, saying such imports are illegal — a move that compounds the nation's severe shortage of execution drugs. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it ...
