the state run news agency ISCA news reported that the Iranian regime has hanged a man identified only by his first name as Nosrat A., 43, in the western city of Hamadan

Authorities in Nigeria dropped charges of illegal marrying 86 wives slapped on an 84-year-old Islamic cleric

the Independent learned that secret executions are being carried out in Iraq in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's government.

Australia will not help people facing the death penalty other than its own citizens, Attorney-General Robert McClelland said.

A convicted drug trafficker was hanged in prison in the northern Iranian city of Hamedan, Etemad

a survey by a Japanese citizens' group opposed to capital punishment found that at least 42 of some 100

A divided Supreme Court refused to reconsider its ruling barring the death penalty for the

in South Korea a provincial court has challenged the constitutionality of the current law

a court in southern Vietnam sentenced a Chinese woman to death for circulating large amounts of counterfeit Vietnamese currency, the presiding judge said.

nine members of an outlawed religious sect in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were

Foreign Affairs Minister Franco Frattini said that Italy will promote a new UN resolution to confirm the moratorium on the death penalty that was approved last December by the United Nations General Assembly and to push countries that still employ the death penalty to stop its use."

the reformist Iranian newspaper Kargozaran published a public appeal asking the chief magistrate to suspend the execution of six Kurdish activists.