a group of 150 Iranian lawyers addressed a letter to the country's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud
A Tennessee man was executed by lethal injection for the death of a couple in 1985, authorities said. Steve Henley, 55, was sentenced to death for the slayings of Fred and Edna Stafford.
A gay Iraqi man due for deportation tomorrow has been told by the UK Border Agency to conduct his
One man was hanged in the prison of Bojnord (in the Iranian province of Northern Khorasan), reported the
Presiding Judge Hiroshi Shida of the Sendai High Court in Japan upheld the death sentence
three Iranians convicted of murder have been hanged recently in the south of the country, local newspapers
at a court in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the death sentence of Faisal Al-Otaibi, alias Abu Kab, was overturned.
a tribunal in Kushtia, Bangladesh, sentenced a man to death for killing his pregnant wife.
an Iranian woman was hanged in the prison of Rafsanjan (south-eastern Iranian province
two people were sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug trafficking.
a Saudi Arabian man convicted of murdering his ex-wife was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh.
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi man convicted of fatally shooting a fellow citizen over a dispute.
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
