a young man identified as Qanbar Kelari was hanged in public outside Nashtaroud prison in the northern province of Gilan.
the former vice mayor of a city in eastern China was sentenced to death for taking more than 100 million
a Ugandan woman who allegedly murdered her husband lost her appeal in the Supreme Court. Susan
a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword in the southern province of Jazan after being convicted of
an Indonesian court rejected a request by the three convicted 'Bali bombers' to be executed by traditional
An Afghan appeal court overturned the death sentence of a young reporter accused of insulting Islam
two men convicted of murder were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said.
Texas executed its 12th inmate so far this year, when Joseph Ray Ries, 29, was given a lethal injection as
Iran hanged four men convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan, state
two Pakistani citizens convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia were beheaded by the sword in the
a Yemen court of appeal confirmed a death sentence on espionage charges against a Saudi who had been
The state of Pennsylvania has asked the US Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to overturn
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
