two Saudi Arabian men were beheaded by the sword after being convicted of the

the Dubai Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates upheld the death sentence of a

anti-capital punishment activists urged the government to follow the global trend and

Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja’fari, a soldier in the Yemeni army, was executed at the military prison in the capital Sana’a.

A court in north China's Hebei Province upheld two death sentences, a suspended death verdict and other convictions in the country's tainted milk scandal.

the Committee for Legislation & Legal Reforms of the Majilis of Kazakhstan’s Parliament approved a resolution with regard to the amendments to the Criminal Code, outlawing capital punishment and replacing it with life imprisonment.

Belarus is moving closer to a moratorium on the death penalty, a senior judicial official

A court in the United Arab Emirates condemned to death a renowned footballer and

Amnesty International renewed its calls for Japan to abolish its use of the death

Countries in Asia carried out more executions in 2008 than the rest of the world put

a court in Yemen sentenced a man to death for allegedly offering to spy for Israel.

One man was hanged last week in the prison of Sirjan (south-east Iranian province