the reformist site Mowjcamp announced that the Tehran Revolutionary Court had issued a fourth death
"As usual, the Mullah’s regime celebrated the world day against the death penalty in a deadly manner,"
a Sudanese court upheld the death sentences handed to four Islamists for murdering US envoy John
Six people have been executed in the southwest Iranian Khuzestan during the last week, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan quoting the state run news agency Fars.
a court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced six people to death in the first trials over July riots that left nearly 200 people dead, state-run television reported.
a man was hanged for adultery and homosexuality, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei reported.
the minor offender Behnoud Shojaee was executed at 5 in the morning at Tehran's Evin Prison. He was convicted of murdering another boy by the name Omid in June 2005, when he was 17 years old.
Three people arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election have been condemned to death, ISNA
the Permanent Military Court in Gaza, Palestine, headed by Judge Ayman 'Imad al-Din, sentenced Saleem
a man identified as Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani learnt from the Iranian authorities that he had been
Amnesty International urged the President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko to grant clemency to a man
the governors of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation called on the Federal Government to sentence
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours