Death penalty sought for Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. January 5, 2012 / 3:21 PM EST / CBS/AP Updated at 3:15 p.m. ET. CAIRO - Prosecutors on Thursday called for Hosni Mubarak to be hanged, saying he ...

Egypt’s highest civilian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, concluding a trial linked to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at a sit-in, according to ...

Egypt's highest appeals court has upheld death sentences for 13 people convicted of terror charges over attacks in the capital in which explosive devices killed at ...

The death penalty in Egypt stems from Islamic Sharia law – a main source of legislation for the Egyptian constitution. As there is no documentation indicating the introduction of the death penalty to ...

CAIRO - An Egyptian criminal court on Monday sentenced 22 people to death after convicting them of storming a police station outside Cairo and killing an officer on July 3, 2013 - the day the ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

Egypt was the top issuer of the death penalty in 2021, according to Amnesty International. It was also the second worst executioner after China that same year, a report by the rights group said.

This video report is the fifth chapter in Seeking Death, an investigative series by ABC15 and ProPublica, which reviewed nearly 350 death penalty cases from 2004 to 2023.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) deplore that a few weeks after the UN Human Rights Council, in the framework of the ...

A History of the Death Penalty from Laura E. Randa's Society's "Final Solution: ... The first death sentence historically recorded occurred in 16th Century BC Egypt where the wrongdoer, ...

He notes that when Amnesty started its global campaign to end the death penalty in 1977, only 16 countries had outlawed it, a figure that now stands at 112. Among developed nations, the U.S ...

The death penalty in practice, ... Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the USA. The highest number of executions globally in the last five years were seen in 2022. And while numerous countries took steps ...