three soldiers and two civilians were sentenced to death for the July 6th murder of Daniel Boteti, an opposition member of the Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament.

an Iraqi lawmaker who has made two trips to Israel and advocates peaceful relations with the Jewish state had his parliamentary immunity lifted last week and now could face a death sentence if Baghdad chooses to prosecute him.

with increasing support for tougher laws to deal with fundamentalist and extremist activities in India, the fight against death penalty is set to get tougher, former Additional Director of Central Bureau of Investigation V.R.Lakshminarayanan said.

the High Court of Malaysia sentenced a self-employed man to hang after finding him guilty of murdering a blacksmith, but freed two of his friends of the same charge.

Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, mullahs' judiciary chief upheld death sentence for a minor, reported the state-run daily Etemaad on Sunday

Iran executed five Kurds, one of whom was a fifteen-year-old child, Kurdishaspect.com, an independent website based in the USA, reported.

"In forty years of absolute power, Colonel Ghaddafi's regime has been characterised by the persecution of every type of political dissent, by the systematic repression of the free opinions of individuals and associations not acknowledged by the regime, by the absolute absence of an independent press, by the incarceration or the disappearance of political opponents, by the recourse to secret tribunals and the holding of closed trials, by the practice of torture and the death penalty."

two men were executed in Yemen for drug trafficking and murder.

in the most recent poll prepared by Dr Nabil Kukali, conducted and published by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), two thirds opposed the imposition of the death penalty in their home land, whilst only 28.5 % supported it.

the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, upheld the acquittal of a man sentenced to death by a sessions court for allegedly murdering a minor girl after she resisted his attempt to rape her.

a man who raped and murdered a 93-year-old woman in her Dallas-area home was executed after he apologized to his victim's relatives.

a man who had been on Georgia's death row for 33 years was executed by lethal injection for killing his wife in 1974.