the Military Court in Gaza sentenced four Palestinians, two from al-Sheja’eya neighborhood and two from al-Tufah neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, to death in absentia.
Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal lost his bid for a new trial in the killing of a city police officer after the U.S. Supreme Court said that it will not take up the case.
an Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death.
a Saudi Arabian man convicted of murdering a compatriot was beheaded by the sword, according to an Interior Ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
Zambian President Rupiah Banda said that he will not sign a death warrant for any condemned inmate despite the death sentence still being enshrined in the Constitution.
the death penalty will be abolished in Jordan for all crimes except premeditated murder
the Ugandan Parliament unanimously created a new clause in the “Prevention of
the Palestinian Authority issued a warning to Palestinians against selling their homes or
a lower court in Saudi Arabia upheld the death penalty against a Canadian in the killing of a Syrian-born teenager, the Arab News reported.
the Nigerian Minister of the Interior, Godwin Abbe, said the Federal Government
Japanese death row inmates should be given at least one day’s notice of their impending execution, a government panel recommended after reviewing operations at the Tokyo Detention Center.
two men were sentenced to death in Tunisia after being found guilty of the murder and rape of a student.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
