death penalty

The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday a defendant to death, charged with first-degree murder and caught on CCTV cameras…

Security officials say police have arrested 22 people after hundreds went on a rampage in Egypt's coastal city of Port…

The trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of the ousted Libyan leader sentenced to death in absentia, did not…

A total of 11 rights groups have called on the Egyptian government to temporarily suspend the death penalty, in a…

The death penalty has failed to reduce drug trafficking in Iran, a senior Iranian judiciary official said on Saturday shortly…

Turkey vowed to root out allies of the US-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a…

Turkey will not be able to join the European Union if it reintroduces the death penalty, a senior EU official…

An official source said that Egypt is among the least countries in the world that implement the death penalty, as…

Pakistan on Wednesday executed a man who was 15 when he was sentenced to death for murder and whose lawyers…

A prominent lawyer has called for the bodies of terrorist convicts to be burned after execution. Speaking to Al-Assema satellite channel…