the death penalty can only be applied to criminals convicted of embezzling funds for natural disasters, riots and economic crises, Indonesia's Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes stated.

Japan hanged three death-row inmates, officials said, bringing the number of executions this year to 13

Iran has hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the northern city of Sari, the government's Iran newspaper reported

a teacher was executed for raping or molesting 39 female primary school pupils in northwestern Gansu Province, China.

China has executed two men. Abduhalik Muzht, 39, convicted of fatally cutting two children with a knife in December 2006, was executed on September 4.

the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa reported that Hizbullah executed one of its senior military officers, Jamal Salah, on charges of maintaining contacts with "hostile elements" in Lebanon and of spying for Walid Jumblatt's Socialist Progressive Party.

Reporters Without Borders welcomed with great relief the ruling by the Tehran Supreme

a proposal to remove capital punishment for crimes of corruption and taking bribes was strongly opposed

the European Parliament approved a resolution on the worrying increase in executions in Iran.

a court in Bagerhat, Bangladesh, sentenced three people to death in the Enamul murder ca

Twenty Nigerian citizens are currently awaiting the hangman’s nose in Indonesia

a man was hanged in the prison of Semnan (east of Tehran), the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.