Indonesia executed three Islamic militants for helping plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.

Causing death through "cyber terrorism" will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree

the News Agency of Nigeria reported that eighteen Nigerians sentenced to death for drug trafficking in

the Botswanan Government does not intend to change its current stance on the death penalty, the President Lt Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama said

Japanese Justice Minister Eisuke Mori said it is not acceptable to abolish the death penalty. "It is not appropriate to terminate capital punishment," he told a press conference after the Cabinet meeting.

the Ugandan High Court sentenced two men to death for killing another man. Desderio Onyango and

an Army jawan in India facing the death penalty for killing an officer had his death sentenced commuted to

the judicial branch of Isfahan province in Iran announced it had carried out that morning the death sentence of Gholamreza H., an Afghan national convicted of murder.

nine people received the death penalty from two courts in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. According to

a former Beijing court president was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in China for bribery and embezzlement.

the Tanzanian government said that the last time a person was hanged in the country was in 1994, while the number of inmates on death row currently stands at 286.

MPs in the Legislative Chamber (lower house) of the Oliy Majlis (parliament) in Uzbekistan approved a