The legislature's Judiciary Committee approved 26-17 a bill that would abolish

Nigerian national Michael Ikenna Nduanya, 34, was sentenced to death in Ho Chi Minh

Ohio executed a man for beating a fellow inmate to death over changing a television channel, prison officials said. Clarence Carter, 49, was the second inmate to be killed in Ohio using the surgical sedative pentobarbital alone rather than the usual concoction of lethal drugs due to a shortage in the United States. The sedative is usually used to euthanize animals.

One man was hanged in the southwest Iranian city of Ahwaz, reported the state run Iranian news agency Fars.

taxi driver Shahrul Nizam Hamid, 40, of Kubang Rotan, was sentenced to death in

an Egyptian military court in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya sentenced Mohammed

three Pakistani citizens, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for the past 13 years on murder and

the High Court in Kedah State, Malaysia, sentenced father and son to death by hanging

"currently in Iraq the final assault is taking place on the anti-regime People's Mujahedin of

3 people were hanged in the central prison of Orumiyeh, Iran.

a man was sentenced to death by the High Court in Sabah State, Malaysia

the Gambian lawmakers approved new amendments, presented before the National Assembly