an Egyptian court in al-Sharqiya in the northern Nile Delta sentenced four men to death
A Virginia man who killed a 16-year-old girl and then waited in her home to rape and stab her 14-year-old sister in 1999 was executed in the state's electric chair.
Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a Lebanese
The UPA government made the anti-hijacking law much tougher by including death sentence as a punishment.
The National Assembly speaker demanded the abolition of the death penalty in South
A death row inmate who tried to kill himself last week by overdosing on pills as
Abdolreza Ghanbari, accused of heretics (moharebeh) in Iran for participation in Ashura Day
Rizana Nafeek is appealing her death sentence for the accidental death of a child that a family
Egyptian man Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was hanged in Cairo’s Isti'naf prison, and his female co-accused, Jihan Mohammed Ali, was executed in Giza for murdering Ali's husband in January 2004.
Six people arrested during the riots on Ashura Day were sentenced to death, Tehran
A convicted cop killer was executed by lethal injection in Texas, state prison
One man was hanged in public in the southwest Iranian city of Ahvaz, reported the official
