Saudi Arabian man Mourif al-Ribai was executed in the Kharj region of Riyadh after being convicted of murdering his sister, the interior ministry announced in a statement carried by the official SPA agency.
the criminal court in Karbala, Iraq, sentenced a woman to death for killing her father and husband with the
ISNA news agency said an unidentified 23-year-old man convicted of robbery and rape was hanged in Bojnourd city in Iran’s north eastern North Khorasan province. It did not give the date of execution.
Sudan sentenced six children to death for taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum but has since
Kyrgyzstan's youth human rights organisation staged a protest near Government House in Bishkek. Young
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to Tehran to appeal for the lives of Iranian Kurds sentenced to death, a
three Iranian men were hanged for raping a 17-year-old boy who subsequently committed suicide, the Fars
A death row inmate who once played a role in a controversial Benetton clothing advertising campaign
Russia's Constitutional Court prolonged a moratorium on the death penalty, which was due to expire on January 1, until it is banned completely.
Iraq is planning to execute up to 126 women by the end of this year.
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said at a conference in Rome he had commuted 75 death sentences to
Two prawn sellers were sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for trafficking in 36,220 grams of
