Iraqi's interior ministry executed 28 criminals and militant cult members in the

China's chief justice told judges to impose the death penalty and other harsh

at a lower court in Kochi, India, Principal Sessions Judge Ernakulam, D

a resolution approved by the European Parliament states that the European Union

Four death row prisoners have been executed in Saudi Arabia, the authorities announced.

Iran has hanged four men, media reports said. On April 13, two members of a Sunni militant group were executed in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

a clampdown on the media in Ethiopia in the wake of disputed elections in 2005

Moazzam Khan, a Pakistan national who was convicted in a drug trafficking case

Japanese authorities hanged four convicted murderers in Tokyo and Osaka. Those hanged were Kaoru Akinaga, 61, Masahito Sakamoto, 41, Masaharu Nakamura, 61, and Katsuyoshi Nakamoto, 64.

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in the northern province of Semnan, the

Felix Alwornga, 21, was sentenced to death for the murder of the former Nebbi

the official Saudi Press Agency said authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of beating a fellow citizen to death.