in Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence

the Tokyo High Court in Japan gave the death penalty to a billing-fraud group member

Two men were hanged in the prison of Sari (northern Iran), reported the official site of

the Nagoya District Court in Japan sentenced two men to death and another to life

Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation today repealing New Mexico's death penalty. Richardson, a Democrat who formerly supported capital punishment, said signing the bill was the "most difficult decision" of his political life but that "the potential for ... execution of an innocent person stands as anathema to our very sensibilities as human beings."

Iraq's government called on the presidential council to ratify the death sentences against former officials from Saddam Hussein's regime so that the punishments can be carried out.

the Anambra State House of Assembly in Nigeria passed a bill

a 43-year-old Japanese man convicted of murder was given the death penalty

a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword for shooting dead a Bangladeshi

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has overseen a steep

The New Mexico Senate passed HB285 (a repeal bill) 24-18. The House had approved

Four people were executed by hanging in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz