Mongolian death row prisoner Buuveibaatar, 33, had his death sentence commuted after being granted a
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State in Nigeria signed into law a bill that provides for death penalty for
China sentenced six more people to death over bloody ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region in July, bringing the total to 12.
Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko refused to pardon death row inmate Vasily Yusepchuk,
Lu Fuguo was executed for drug trafficking in south China's Guangdong Province, the Dongguan Municipal
the reformist site Mowjcamp announced that the Tehran Revolutionary Court had issued a fourth death
"As usual, the Mullah’s regime celebrated the world day against the death penalty in a deadly manner,"
a Sudanese court upheld the death sentences handed to four Islamists for murdering US envoy John
Six people have been executed in the southwest Iranian Khuzestan during the last week, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan quoting the state run news agency Fars.
a court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced six people to death in the first trials over July riots that left nearly 200 people dead, state-run television reported.
a man was hanged for adultery and homosexuality, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei reported.
the minor offender Behnoud Shojaee was executed at 5 in the morning at Tehran's Evin Prison. He was convicted of murdering another boy by the name Omid in June 2005, when he was 17 years old.