A Sudanese court sentenced another 11 Darfur rebels to death for a deadly attack on
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza promulgated the new criminal code which abolishes the death penalty but makes homosexuality a crime punishable by jail.
There are currently 45 people on death row in Jordan, including five women, mostly
the Indian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence of a Kerala man for
a Sudanese court sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death and acquitted five others for an unprecedented 2008 attack on Khartoum.
two Thai nationals were sentenced to death by the High Court in Temerloh, central
a Japanese woman found guilty of murder lost her appeal against a death sentence, a
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Yemeni man convicted of fatally shooting a
the Tibet Daily reported that a Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan girl to death with a two-year reprieve and two others to long jail terms for setting fires that allegedly killed six people in the Lhasa riot in March 2008.
a man convicted of raping a woman five years ago was hanged in a prison in
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied habeas corpus relief to
the Vietnamese National Assembly Justice Committee presented a report
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
