Hands Off Cain organised a conference in Kinshasa against the death penalty in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that was sponsorsed by the Congolese National Assembly President and Senate President, with the contribution of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

the Algerian Government rejected a proposal to abolish the death penalty based on the struggle against Islamic terrorism, and security and organised crime considerations.

A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia for murdering his nephew

Al Shabaab militants, who control Mogadishu’s Baidoa town, the former seat of

a Sudanese court sentenced another 12 Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on

the Council of Europe's (CE) Deputy Secretary General, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio,

an Egyptian was beheaded by the sword in Riyadh for murdering a Saudi during a

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has vetoed legislation that would have abolished the

the Indian Supreme Court termed the capital punishment law "uncertain" and "falling

Two men were hanged in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan in the morning, reported the Iranian daily Kayhan.

An Egyptian court sentenced seven people from two feuding families to death for their

the Zambian Supreme Court upheld the conviction and death sentence of a poacher