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Turkey's Erdogan says ready to back reinstating death penalty: Media
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would approve possibly reinstating the death penalty if parliament were to send a bill on the matter to him, ... Middle East -
European court tells Russia to ensure two Britons do not face death penalty
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Thursday it had issued an order to Russia to ensure that two Britons captured after fighting for ... World News -
International outcry as Singapore prepares to hang mentally disabled man next week
A mentally disabled Malaysian man will be hanged in Singapore next week after losing a last-ditch appeal, his sister said Wednesday, despite an ... World News -
Virginia lawmakers set to vote on death penalty abolishment
Lawmakers in Virginia are expected to vote on Friday to make it the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty, a significant sign of the ... World News -
China executes ex-banker accused of bigamy, bribery
China on Friday executed a former top banker accused of taking $260 million worth of bribes, other forms of corruption and bigamy, state broadcaster ... Business -
US court clears way for execution of only woman on death row
A US federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes ... World News -
Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty
Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly two-decade freeze on capital punishment in the authoritarian Central Asian country, ... World News -
Iran says ‘counter-revolutionary’ figure faces death sentence
An Iranian opposition figure who had been living in exile before being arrested faces the death sentence, the opening day of his trial heard on Monday ... Middle East -
Tunisia condemns eight to death for presidential guard attack
A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12.The November 24, ... North Africa -
Pakistan's ex-President Pervez Musharraf has death sentence annulled
A Pakistan court Monday annulled the death sentence handed to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, ruling that the special court which had found ... World News -
Iran drops spy charge for detained French academic: Lawyer
Iran has dropped espionage charges that had been laid against an Iranian-French academic detained in the Islamic republic since last year, her lawyer ... Middle East -
Pakistan court adds grisly ‘hang for three days’ rider to Musharraf death sentence
A Pakistan special court issued a bizarre but apparently symbolic order for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Thursday, saying his corpse ... World News -
Former Pakistan Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf given death sentence
Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court sentenced on Tuesday former Army Chief Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the ... World News -
Jordan sentences two brothers to death for ISIS-claimed Karak attack
A Jordanian court sentenced two brothers to death on Sunday in connection with a 2016 attack claimed by ISIS extremist group, overturning a life ... Middle East -
Tunisia sentences 41 to death over 2014 attack on army
A Tunisian court has sentenced 41 extremists to death over an attack that killed 15 soldiers on the border with Algeria in 2014, prosecutors said ... North Africa -
Iranian MP says corruption convicts ‘must be executed in public squares’
The head of an Iranian parliament committee to combat economic corruption, Amir Khojasteh, has called for the public execution of those found guilty ... World News -
Egypt sentences eight ISIS extremists to death over attack
An Egyptian military court sentenced eight members of ISIS extremist group to death on Wednesday for a deadly attack against the army in 2016, several ... Middle East -
Israel lawmakers to debate death penalty bill for Palestinian ‘terrorists’
Israel’s parliament will renew debate next week on a bill that would make it easier to sentence Palestinian attackers to death, Defense Minister ... Middle East -
Iran financial trader, ‘Sultan of Coins’, sentenced to death for economic crimes
A court in Iran sentenced to death a financial trader known as the “Sultan of Coins” on Sunday, along with another man, the ... North Africa -
Egyptian military court sentences 17 to death for ISIS church attacks
An Egyptian military court on Thursday sentenced 17 people to death over a series of suicide bombings of churches claimed by the ISIS extremist group ... Middle East -
Iraq’s Abadi orders immediate executions of ISIS militants on death row
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted ISIS militants on death row, in a swift retaliation ... Middle East -
UN experts urge Iran to halt ‘unlawful execution’ of juvenile offender
Two UN rights experts urged Iran on Tuesday to halt the execution of a man scheduled to take place shortly following the end of Ramadan, after he was ... Middle East -
India approves death penalty for rape of girls under 12
India’s cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an ... World News -
Pakistan court hands out death sentence over blasphemy lynching
A Pakistani court sentenced one person to death and five others to life imprisonment on Wednesday for lynching a student accused of blasphemy, a crime ... World News -
A response to the New York Times and the Washington Post
On August 3 and 5 respectively, the New York Times and the Washington Post published editorials condemning the decision by Saudi Arabia’s ... Middle East -
Hamas winds up trial of military leader’s alleged killers
A military court in Gaza on Thursday concluded the trial of three men accused of assassinating a Hamas military leader and will deliver its verdict at ... Middle East -
US judge blocks use of one of three drugs in lethal injections
An Arkansas judge on Friday issued a temporary restraining order barring the state from administering one of three drugs it planned to use in a series ... World News -
Houthi court sentences abducted journalist to death
A Houthi court has sentenced abducted journalist Yahya Abduraqeeb al-Jubaihi to death on Wednesday, accusing him of collaborating with enemy states, ... Print -
Indian spy caught in Pakistan given death sentence
A military court in Pakistan has sentenced an Indian spy agent to death for carrying out espionage and sabotage activities in Balochistan and Karachi, ... Middle East -
Sudanese child rapist sentenced to death
A Sudanese court has sentenced a defendant to death after he was found guilty of raping a two-year-old girl to death last year. It was revealed that ... News