Aside from Singapore, which has executed 17 people so far this year, Southeast Asia is retreating from the death penalty.

Riyadh breaks its own record for death sentences carried out annually, with 340 executions, according to AFP tally ...

Saudi Arabia has executed 340 individuals in 2025, surpassing its own previous record. The majority of these executions are ...

Singapore: It’s been the hangman’s busiest year in decades; 17 lives so far, all but two of them drug offenders. Singapore ...

Since the start of 2025, Saudi Arabia has executed 232 people in drug-related cases, constituting the majority of the 340 ...

Saudi Arabia has set a new record for executions in a single year after putting three people to death on Monday, bringing the total number of executions carried out in 2025 to 340, according to an AFP ...

Ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms is one of the key priorities of state policy in the Republic of Azerbaijan. An ...

"The introduction of the death penalty for drug-related offences would lead to additional violations to the already alarming human rights record of the Maldives, including in connection to its use of ...

Tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of sedition and foreign collusion under Hong Kong's national security law, drawing ...