a Saudi Arabian minor convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in the south-western border town of Abha.

His excellency the President of Zambia, Rupiah Bwezani Banda, pardoned and commuted the

a regional conference on penal reform and the UN resolution calling for a moratorium

A man convicted of murdering three people during a night of robberies more than 13 years ago in Fort Worth was put to death in Texas in the nation's first execution of the year. Curtis Moore, 40, was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., eight minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing.

the Criminal Court in Algiers issued the death sentence against a man bearing the initials K.J, nicknamed

Iran's judiciary confirmed that two men were stoned to death for adultery in the northeastern city of

"The EU seriously condemns new facts of death penalty through stone beating in Iran," the EU declaration

the Sana'a Criminal Court in Yemen ordered an adult executed in public for the rape and murder of an 11

a Qatari national was given the death penalty for killing a man during a family dispute and the 12 people

Houshang Khodadadeh and an unidentified man were stoned by the mullahs' judiciary in Behesht Zahra cemetery in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran.

A traffic police officer in Riyadh was executed after he was convicted of kidnapping an expatriate man,

a follower of the Baha'i faith was executed after his daughter complained he had raped her, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.