in Yemen, the Taiz Appeal Court upheld Akram al-Samawi’s death sentence for raping
Belarus will seek its own way to ban capital punishment, Nikolai Samoseiko, Chairman
in Gaza, Palestine, the Court of First Instance sentenced A. Gh., 30, to
A Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword
The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission frees Gregory Taylor, 47, white, who was sentenced to
Three men were hanged in two different Iranian cities for drug trafficking.
A retired member of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces was sentenced to death for having spied for Israel and for his involvement in the murder of two Palestinian militant leaders.
An Iranian court sentenced Amir-Reza Arefi to death for ties to an illegal group called the Iranian
Saudi Arabian man Ahmed al-Anzi was beheaded by the sword in the northern province
Iran rejected calls to release all political prisoners and accept an international inquiry
Martin Grossman was executed at the Florida state prison in Starke.
Britain, France and Italy called on Iraq to halt use of the death penalty, expressing concern at a growth in the number of executions in the past two years.