a Bangladeshi murderer was executed by firing squad in Bahrain early in the morning, the Public Prosecution

Vietnam's head of state, Nguyen Minh Triet, explained his personal efforts to reduce

two recently discovered mass graves and a still-secret list of five other places where

capital punishment may soon be expunged from Nigeria's statutes book if members

an Algerian criminal court sentenced 14 people to death in absentia for a series of

the State Specialized Appeals Court in Yemen approved the death penalty against the

Afghanistan's appeal court referred a reporter sentenced to death on blasphemy charges

the Mullahs' regime in Iran is set to execute scholar on the history of Iran and Islam, Dr

the autonomous northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan's justice minister, Faruq Jamil, told campaign

Tahar Boumedra, the Penal Reform International (PRI) Regional Director for the

an Indian and a Sri Lankan were saved from death row in the United Arab Emirates by

thanks to a proposal by the Radicals, the Liberal International approved the resolution for the prohibition of persecution and discrimination based on sexual orientation.