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Perpetrators of the crime were hanged this morning for killing a paramilitary force member, says official news agency

The Islamic Republic has long accused arch-enemy Israel of carrying out covert operations on its soil

Two of them were executed on charges of espionage for Israel

Petitioner Saifullah claims four members of his family were assassinated in the early hours of February 16, 2011

Ministry said that the three had been sentenced to death by a specialist court after a fair trial

The individual will receive prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in juvenile detention facility

Although, the country will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium

The Iranian men were convicted of collaborating directly with the IS militants who carried out attacks on June 7 2017

Iraq put to death 12 convicted of terrorism hours after Prime Minister Haider al Abadi called for speedy executions

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman suggests that the kingdom would consider changing the death penalty in some cases

Pakistan world's fifth most prolific executioner: Justice Project Pakistan

According to the Death Penalty Information Center no state has ever carried out eight executions in 10 days

In October 2015, IS claimed the downing of a plane carrying Russian tourists home

Moratorium was lifted following the gruesome attack on Army Public School in Peshawar

Most of the 15 Saudis were members of the kingdom’s Shia minority

Complicity on part of prisons, judicial authorities in Punjab cannot be ruled out

According to state media, the prisoners were executed for committing several murders and undermining national security

The four, including three brothers, were executed in the western city of Taif

President Ghani disregarded opposition from predecessor

Amnesty International last week described Pakistan as the world's third most prolific executioner

The issue has come under scrutiny because of a scathing UN report on human rights in Iran

Capital punishment is rising globally with Pakistan among the leaders in those judicially killed

'Over the past year, Pakistan has vaulted to the number three spot for recorded state executions in the world'

In 2015, Saudi Arabia executed 153 people, most of them for drug trafficking or murder

Prosecution said Jamshed and his accomplices had shot Mujahid Ali over a property dispute in 2012

The body was handed to his legal heirs after medico-legal formalities

Of the 351 executions, only 39 involved people linked to known militant group or guilty of crimes linked to militancy

Ibrahim Mohammed Salman was caught trying to smuggle opium which was hidden in his car

Most child executions were for murder, rape, drug-related crimes and a national security offence

Secretary General, JI, Liaquat Baloch led the protest and accused the government

Jaafari was making efforts to "advance dialogue and have a diplomatic role in preventing efforts to create discord"

Image has been posted after the Kingdom executed top Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr

Ban had urged Saudi Arabia to commute all death sentences that had been imposed

Iran president says Saudi embassy attack 'totally unjustifiable'

As many as 301 people were executed in the Punjab last year

ISPR says terrorists were involved in committing heinous offences relating to terrorism

The executions bring to 14 the total number of death sentences carried out since PM Shinzo Abe took power in late 2012

Rights experts have raised concerns about the fairness of trials in the Kingdom

Asma Jahangir alleges military authorities did not allow the accused to hire their counsels

APS victims' parents laud hanging of massacre convicts

Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mojaheed had been convicted of war crimes related to the events of 1971

Interior ministry says Nasser al-Qahtani was put to death after being convicted of shooting dead another Saudi

In Faisalabad, two men were sentenced to death for killing former market committee chairman

British legal aid group says documentary evidence indicated Ansar Iqbal was a child at the time of alleged offence

Calls urgently for a moratorium on executions

According to AFP tallies, four deaths bring to 120 the number of executions this year in the kingdom

Separately two murder convicts were executed in Adiala Jail on Friday

Shafqat's execution will now be carried out on August 4 in Karachi jail

Two condemned prisoners are likely to be hanged next week

Authorities are believed to have executed an astonishing 694 people in six months, set to surpass the toll of 2014