Iran hanged three men convicted of murder and drug trafficking in a prison in the country's central clerical capital, Qom, the conservative Kayhan newspaper reported.

Iran hanged four convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the state-run television's website reported.

Indonesia executed a man sentenced to death seven years ago for murdering four people, despite a call from international human rights groups to halt the execution.

a mother and son were taken before a firing squad in the industrial town of Surabaya on Java island, Indonesia, their lawyer Soeteja Djajasmita said.

in West Java, Indonesia, a man convicted of murder was executed in Banten province, according to prosecutor Lari Gau. Tubagus Yusuf Maulana, alias Usep, was killed at 10.30 pm.

the Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld a death conviction of a 27 year old man found guilty of murder. Levi Nuwamanya, a businessman from Rukungiri town, was found guilty of killing his lover, Enid Tumuhimbise, on December 22, 2003, for unknown reasons.

an octogenarian man was shot dead in public on the orders of a local jirga that found him 'guilty' of kidnapping a girl in the Kala Dhaka tribal area in Pakistan, sources said.

four condemned prisoners were hanged in Faisalabad District Jail in Pakistan.

the Pakistani Government has not forwarded a formal proposal for commuting all death sentences into life imprisonment terms to President Pervez Musharraf, despite an announcement by the Prime Minister nearly a month ago, the country's Attorney General said. Attorney General Malik Qayyum said:

two Kurdish activists were condemned to death in a closed court hearing in the Iranian city of Sanandaj.

the Argentine Congress eliminated the Military Code of Justice, thereby eliminating a special jurisdiction dating back to the 19th century, as well as burying the last vestige of the death penalty and ending punishment for homosexuality.

US President George W Bush approved the death penalty for a soldier of Pvt. Ronald A. Gray, convicted by court-martial of two homicides and three rapes at Fort Bragg, N.C. in 1986-87.