Two Saudis were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of raping a man, the interior
The Hamas parliament in the Gaza Strip voted in favour of a law allowing courts to mete out sentences in
a man was hanged in the prison of Noshahr (north of Iran) early today, reported the state run news
Iran hanged nine convicted murderers, including a woman, in a Tehran prison, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
the Supreme People's Court (SPC) is working on a guideline to unify standards for the issuing of the death
Mohammed Ali Johari, a murder convict, was hanged at Changi Prison in Singapore, police said.
Iran hanged two men in a prison in the religious city of Qom after they were convicted of drug trafficking,
death-row inmates executed in 2008 will certainly outnumber those whose death penalty was confirmed
Jamaica's senate voted to retain the death penalty, a punishment that has not been carried out in the country
Authorities in Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi citizen convicted of killing a fellow national after a dispute.
at about 8 am, Charles Elroy Laplace became the first convict in the St Kitts to hang in 10 years. The 40-
Iran hanged a man in a prison in the religious city of Qom, the government newspaper Iran reported.
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
