A convicted murderer became the second inmate put to death this week by lethal

Two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers, former Interior Minister Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and director of public security Sabawi Ibrahim, were sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. Hussein's former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the 1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of price gouging while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.

Five prisoners were hanged in Iran for murder and kidnapping, state-run media reports

legislation abolishing New Mexico's death penalty cleared the Senate Judiciary

a former Congolese militia leader was sentenced to death by a military court in southeastern Democratic

an Iranian man convicted of murdering a jeweller was hanged in the western province of Kermanshah, state-

“We acknowledged that intervening and preventing the state assassination in Iraq of Tareq Aziz, an official

authorities beheaded a Saudi Arabian man convicted of murdering his mother and an Indonesian maid. An

an appeals court in Iran found Kurdish student, Habibolah Latifi, guilty of waging war against God

a man convicted of killing ten people in a shooting rampage outside a mosque in north-western Yemen was executed in his home city, a security source said. A police firing squad shot dead Abdullah Saleh al-Kohali, 27, in the central prison of Amran.

an Egyptian court sentenced 10 men to death by hanging for gang-raping a woman, a

the criminal court of Djelfa, Algeria, handed the death penalty to the emir of “El Qaida