Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to Tehran to appeal for the lives of Iranian Kurds sentenced to death, a

three Iranian men were hanged for raping a 17-year-old boy who subsequently committed suicide, the Fars

A death row inmate who once played a role in a controversial Benetton clothing advertising campaign

Russia's Constitutional Court prolonged a moratorium on the death penalty, which was due to expire on January 1, until it is banned completely.

Iraq is planning to execute up to 126 women by the end of this year.

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said at a conference in Rome he had commuted 75 death sentences to

Two prawn sellers were sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for trafficking in 36,220 grams of

Islamist rebels publicly stoned a woman to death and flogged a man 100 times for alleged adultery in southern Somalia.

Three people, among them one woman, were hanged in the prison of Isfahan (Central Iran) early this

five inmates waiting to be hanged for more than 20 years were released by Luzira Prison authorities

in Taif, Saudi Arabia, Saad Al-Hathli was executed for kidnapping and raping two schoolboys at a remote area outside the

Iran hanged two men convicted of rape and murder in the prison of Hamedan, western part of Iran, the