anti-capital punishment activists urged the government to follow the global trend and
Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja’fari, a soldier in the Yemeni army, was executed at the military prison in the capital Sana’a.
A court in north China's Hebei Province upheld two death sentences, a suspended death verdict and other convictions in the country's tainted milk scandal.
the Committee for Legislation & Legal Reforms of the Majilis of Kazakhstan’s Parliament approved a resolution with regard to the amendments to the Criminal Code, outlawing capital punishment and replacing it with life imprisonment.
Belarus is moving closer to a moratorium on the death penalty, a senior judicial official
A court in the United Arab Emirates condemned to death a renowned footballer and
Amnesty International renewed its calls for Japan to abolish its use of the death
Countries in Asia carried out more executions in 2008 than the rest of the world put
a court in Yemen sentenced a man to death for allegedly offering to spy for Israel.
One man was hanged last week in the prison of Sirjan (south-east Iranian province
Minister of Interior, Major-General Godwin Abbe (rtd), said in Abuja that close to 200
the Tunisian court of Cassation confirmed the death penalty of a man found guilty of
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
