Capital punishment is legal in most countries of the Middle East. Much of the motivation for the retention of the death penalty has been religious in...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment...

Irreligion in the Middle East is the lack of religion in the Middle East. Though atheists in the Middle East are rarely public about their lack of belief...

Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Indonesia. Although the death penalty is normally enforced only in grave cases of premeditated murder, corruption...

In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also...

This is a list of methods of capital punishment, also known as execution. Many of the former methods combine execution with torture, often intending to...

Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history. It currently remains a legal...

Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Iran. The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Jordan. The country had a moratorium on capital punishment between 2006 and 2014. In late 2014 the moratorium...