An Egyptian court sentenced to death 75 extremists, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and referred what was the largest single case of capital punishment convictions to the country’s top religious authority.
Two prisoners were hanged on drug related charges at Urmia Central prison
Gaza Court of First Instance issued 2 death sentences by hanging against (G. H.) and (Z. Q.) from Gaza City, after being convicted of participation in murder.
The Madras High Court set aside the conviction as well as death sentence imposed by a trial court on 24-year-old P. Manikandan
Eight people have been sentenced to death and 88 jailed for life over the sorcery-related killings of seven men and children in Papua New Guinea, a report said.
According to a close source, a prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison.
“Nearly all western democracies, as well as dozens of other countries, have abandoned capital punishment.
Weeks after a radicalized Muslim family committed suicide attacks on churches in the city of Surabaya, Indonesia, the country passed an anti-terror law
Five prisoners were executed at Dizel Abad Prison in Kermansh.
An Iraqi court has sentenced a man to death over his involvement in killing 34 Iraqi, Iranian Shiites while heading for Karbala to celebrate a religious ceremony.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to a Haryana woman and her boyfriend for poisoning and strangulating seven members of her family, including four children, in September 2009.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is an iranian writer and political activist condemned to six years of prison for having written a script, not published, that criticized the practice of stoning in Iran.
