Iran executed three people, two of them University students, convicted of being involved in the bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz which killed 14 people and injured 200 others in April 2008.

China executed two Uygurs in the restive northwestern Xinjiang region for a ''terrorist''

a Malaysian court sentenced two policemen to death for murdering a Mongolian

the death sentence issued in Iran to Kurdish journalist Hiwa Boutimar was suspended,

the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court sentenced two Tibetans to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa in March 2008.

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded three Pakistanis convicted of killing a fellow Pakistani man, the Interior Ministry said in a statement in state news agency SPA.

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the Military Court in Gaza sentenced four Palestinians, two from al-Sheja’eya neighborhood and two from al-Tufah neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, to death in absentia.

Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal lost his bid for a new trial in the killing of a city police officer after the U.S. Supreme Court said that it will not take up the case.

an Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death.

a Saudi Arabian man convicted of murdering a compatriot was beheaded by the sword, according to an Interior Ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Zambian President Rupiah Banda said that he will not sign a death warrant for any condemned inmate despite the death sentence still being enshrined in the Constitution.