China executes man who killed his rapists
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Beijing - China has executed a university dropout for killing six men - four of whom had raped him, state media reported on Sunday.
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A teacher in northwestern China has been sentenced to death for raping 18 primary school girls, the second such case in the same area, state media reported Wednesday.
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Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 murders near railroad tracks around the country, was executed Tuesday night.
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A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
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A woman and three men are publicly executed in Pakistan after tribal elders find them guilty of adultery.
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Two Somali men accused of killing government intelligence officers are executed in the capital, Mogadishu.
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China has executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog for corruption, state media says.
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A Florida judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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A man armed with a knife has gone on the rampage and killed eight people at a school in central China, state media is reporting. The attack happened overnight in Ruzhou, a city in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency said.
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Saudi man for machine-gunning another Saudi to death, raising to 10 the number of death sentences implemented this year.
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A condemned killer was executed Tuesday night for the fatal prison beating of a convicted child molester.
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Iraqi authorities executed 13 men by hanging Tuesday after they were convicted of murder and kidnapping, lining them up in hoods and green jumpsuits with their hands bound behind their backs.
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A man convicted of raping and killing a schoolgirl is hanged in India's first execution in nine years.
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Three Indonesian Christians sentenced to death for attacks against Muslims in 2000 are executed.
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An Afghan court sentences to death three men for killing 11 Chinese road workers in Kunduz in June.
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Two teachers are handed the death penalty by a Chinese court for selling young girls into the sex trade.
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One of the Chinese engineers held hostage by militants in a Pakistani tribal region was killed and another was freed with injuries Thursday, Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy sources as saying.