A Sudanese court sentenced another two Darfur rebels to death for a deadly 2008 attack,

Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council passed legislation amending the Criminal Procedure Law so that

ten years after first being arrested in connection with the murder of two Zimbabwean

Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted and sentenced to death

a Sudanese military court sentenced 18 soldiers to death charging them with insubordination and mutiny

a Somali man was stoned to death for adultery in Barawe town by al Shabaab militants

Six people were hanged in Sudan's capital for their role in deadly clashes in 2005 between police and residents of a camp for the displaced, the official news agency SUNA reported.

a Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in Khamis Msheit

in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Redha bin Abid bin Abdullah Almabadi was beheaded by the sword for fatally stabbing Ahmed bin Mohammad al-Harbi in an argument, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Iran hanged three men, two Iranian and an Afghan, convicted of murder and rape inside a prison in Varamin, south of Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

An Iraqi court sentenced to death 11 men, including Al-Qaeda militants, over devastating truck bombs in

Mongolia's president announced a moratorium on the death penalty, a move that rights groups welcomed as a step toward changing Mongolian law to ban executions permanently.