Terry Lee Hankins was executed for the slayings of his 2 stepchildren. The lethal injection was the 200th during the tenure of Gov. Rick Perry, a milestone denounced by capital punishment opponents.
in Saudi Arabia, a General Court’s three-judge panel sentenced a 22-year-old man to
an Californian man who fled to Canada in late 2007 was been sent back to the US to
Five people were hanged in the prison of Kerman, south east of Iran, reported the official news portal of the city.
authorities in China sentenced five Kenyan nationals to death after they were convicted
the Indian Supreme Court said people convicted of burning their wives for bringing
Saudi Arabia executed a man for double murder and displayed his body in public as a deterrent, state media said.
Iran hanged three men who were accused of being involved in a mosque bombing that killed 25 people and wounded more than 100, the official IRNA news agency reported.
a Saudi Arabian man convicted of kidnapping a child and shooting a police officer was
Nebraska Changes Execution Method to Lethal Injection. Today the Nebraska
the Majilis of the Kazakh Parliament approved a draft law “On introduction of
the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement is trying to find a legal justification to carry out death penalties in the Gaza Strip without the need of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' approval, a spokesman said.
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
