fifty participants representing different African Union member states and national human rights commissions appealed to African countries to emulate Rwanda and abolish the death penalty.
One woman was hanged in the prison of Sarakhs, north-east Iran, reported the state run Iranian news
the nigerian Federal Government recommended death penalty for fake drugdealers.
an appeal against one of the two death sentences imposed this year in Belarus will be heard by the Supreme
Officials in Kyrgyzstan called for the death penalty to be reinstated and said public executions could be
A court in north-western Tanzania sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy.
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has promised to carry out the "death penalty" to curtail increasing cases
Christopher Coleman, 37, black, was executed in Texas. He was 1 of 3 men convicted in connection with a drug-related shootings on Dec. 14, 1995 that claimed 3 lives.
the Nigerian Federal Government might be unable to save the 57 Nigerians facing the death row in different
the UN Human Rights Committee called on the Tanzanian Government to seriously consider abolishing
Two women leaders of a drug dealing ring in Hanoi, Vietnam, were sentenced to death in a case that also saw six former police officers of the capital city get prison terms.
the higher people's court in north China's Hebei Province upheld a ruling sentencing 10 members in a
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
