Japan reintroduced popular juries in penal trials after a break of 66 years. This aligned

in the Palestinian Authority, a Hamas military court sentenced three Fatah members to

Four people were hanged in the prison of Shiraz in the morning, according to several Iranian newspapers such as Etemad.

in Malaysia, a former police constable was sentenced to death by Judicial

a Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian tycoon and a former policeman to death for the

"Cancelling his visit to Iran is the minimum that Frattini could and should do,” Elisabetta Zamparutti, Radical Deputy and Hands Off Cain director, said.

a Sudanese court sentenced another nine Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on

North Korea has executed a former official in charge of inter-Korean relations,

A 51-year-old man was executed by lethal injection in Texas for the February 1986 murder of a young sales clerk as he robbed a convenience store.

Iranian authorities hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking and murder

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi national for a murder resulting from a

at a court in Damanhur, Egypt, Judge Mahmoud Selim sentenced 24 men to death for a shootout in May 2008.