despite appeals to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to overturn the death penalty

Authorities have beheaded a Saudi woman convicted of shooting her husband and

the Sudan Human Rights Organisation (SHRO) criticised Sudanese Courts for

an Egyptian man was sentenced to death by a court of Giza, Egypt, which found him guilty of the murders of two girls in 2008.

A Texas parole violator was executed for beating and using kitchen tools to kill a 67-year-old woman in her Lubbock apartment. "I love you all. May the Lord be with you. Peace. I'm done," Michael Rosales said in his brief, final statement.

The Colorado House gave tentative approval today to House Bill 1274, a plan to

A Sudanese court condemned 10 rebels from the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement to death for an unprecedented attack on Khartoum in 2008 which killed more than 220 people.

a Yemeni was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia for garrotting a compatriot with

Three Moroccans were sentenced to death by a court of Meknès (120 km east of

Sudanese authorities executed nine men from Darfur for murder, state media and a police source said.

the Radical parliamentarians joining the Democratic Party (PD), the first signatory being

the Lahore High Court in Pakistan abolished the death sentence for under-trial women