an Iranian has been condemned to death for anti-government riots at the
In a 22-page order filed today in Greenwood County Circuit Court, Judge J. Mark Hayes II ordered that Edward Lee Elmore cannot be executed because he is mentally retarded.
the Court of Cassation in Jordan overturned the death sentence of a women convicted of killing her mother-
a former local official in east China's Anhui Province was sentenced to death
the National Constitutional Conference in Zambia upheld the Constitution’s death penalty
Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, 62, said that a 19 year old man
Death row inmate Mark Brown was executed via lethal injection in Ohio for the murders
President Barack Obama denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that calls for the
Chinese state media say 25 people have been sentenced to death for their roles in nine kidnapping cases.
the Algiers criminal court in Algeria sentenced Mohamed Benziane to death for assassinations
Iran will "soon execute" nine people arrested during anti-government protests for seeking to topple the
in China, Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court sentenced former police director of Nanbin Road