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
a Japanese court overturned two earlier rulings and sentenced a man to death for
a stateless resident was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia after he was
Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the central city of Isfahan,
the Palestinian High Military Court in Jenin sentenced Mr Tha'er Mahmoud Husni
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran