a Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in Khamis Msheit
in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Redha bin Abid bin Abdullah Almabadi was beheaded by the sword for fatally stabbing Ahmed bin Mohammad al-Harbi in an argument, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
Iran hanged three men, two Iranian and an Afghan, convicted of murder and rape inside a prison in Varamin, south of Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
An Iraqi court sentenced to death 11 men, including Al-Qaeda militants, over devastating truck bombs in
Mongolia's president announced a moratorium on the death penalty, a move that rights groups welcomed as a step toward changing Mongolian law to ban executions permanently.
A Saudi man was beheaded in Madinah for raping and robbing four women after offering to give them a
Abbas Jaafari Dowlat Abadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor, announced today that the cases of five individuals
six men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged early this morning in a prison in
seven men were executed by the by the Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People's
two Burmese officials were sentenced to death for leaking to North Korea and Russia details
dissident Ardeshir Geshavarz was hanged in the northern Iranian city of Karaj. He was accused
Iraq executed 77 people last year, all of whom were convicted of terrorism-related offences, the country's supreme court said.
