China's top legislature approved extradition treaties with Australia and France. The treaty

the Supreme Court in Lagos, Nigeria, confirmed the death sentence of Abdullahi Ada, who, eight years ago,

a Qatari man was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his aunt following a fight about money. The

New Cuban President Raul Castro announced that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms o

the Hebron Military Court imposed the death penalty on a man convicted of collaborating with Israeli security, raising the possibility of the first such execution in seven years.

two men were hanged for drug trafficking in the main prison of Qom, Iran. The prisoners were identified only as Mahmood, 47, and Ghodrat, 56.

two Pakistanis and a Syrian convicted of smuggling drugs were beheaded by the

China's top court interrogated a death penalty defendant via a video link for the

Taiwanese premier Liu Chao-shiuan recently announced a list of names that will

Iran hanged five men convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison, the Fars news

a ruling handed down by the Hiroshima High Court to a 27 year old man who

China released a draft of its food-safety law that includes imposing the death