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.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours