Chinese courts handed down about 30 percent fewer death penalties last year compared with 2006, sources from a forum revealed.

a man sentenced to death in Kenya was set free after a High Court accused police

the European Parliament in Brussels approved the Report by Marco Cappato (Italian Radicals

human rights groups in Liberia expressed concern over a law approved

a court in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Regional State found six Ethiopians, one

Japanese lawyers criticised the rising number of executions carried out in the country,

Iran hanged four men convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison.

the Liberian House of Representatives passed into law an Act making Armed

a military court of appeal upheld for a second time the death sentence on

Iran's judiciary ordered a month's postponement of the execution of a young man

the broadcast of the execution of a man more than 50 years ago is the first time most Japanese have

fearing yet another public execution of an alleged outlaw, tribesmen in Machinai locality