in Nigeria, Chief Justice Bemari Bansi of the Yola High Court sentenced Patrick Ozeoma to hang for a
The government of Japan continues to execute prisoners who are mentally ill,
The Indonesian House of Representatives and the government agreed to pass a state
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has given assurances that two Norwegians sentenced to death for murder and spying would not be executed, Norway's foreign ministry said.
Broad body of evidence points to wrongful execution of texan Cameron Todd Willingham white, 36 at the
a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death on charges of murder and espionage.
the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights said that Egyptian nationals Hijazi Ahmad Zaydan, Haytham al-
the Kremlin says Russia will continue to maintain a moratorium on capital punishment.
lifetime jail terms or the death penalty would be pronounced on manufacturers and distributors of fake and
a Turkish citizen arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2007 for drug trafficking was recently sentenced to death, his
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student sentenced to death in Afghanistan for trying to promote women's
a 25-year-old man was sentenced to death by High Court Judicial Commissioner Datuk Mohd Zawawi