Togo's parliament voted unanimously to abolish the death penalty.

Iran's parliament plans to scrap stoning and amputation of a hand as punishments in a revised version of the

the Lusaka High Court in Zambia sentenced three brothers to death for killing their father using sticks and other objects.

two Saudi Arabian men have been recently executed for rape, murder.

Vietnam voted in favor of dropping the death penalty on eight crimes. The amendments to the Criminal Code, passed at the closing day of the National Assembly's month-long session, will take place from January 1, 2010.

six men have been recently executed in Iran for drug trafficking, murder.

there were at least 346 executions carried out in Iran in 2008 and at least 200 have already taken place in 2009. These figures come from the dossier 'Iran death penalty and not only' that will be presented by Hands Off Cain at the Radical Party headquarters in Rome.

Additional district and session judge Kasur Aaqil Hussain Chohan awarded the death

An Iranian provincial prosecutor has warned that the "few elements" behind post-

the seminar that followed the June 10th Conference in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the abolition of capital punishment has ended. The seminar topic was communication regarding the death penalty.

the court in Damanhur, Egypt, confirmed the death sentence given to 24 people on

criminals sentenced to death in Beijing, China, are to be killed by lethal injection, not by