Muneer Ahmed Hussein Shah, a Bangladeshi national residing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was executed for murder. A statement by the Saudi Interior Ministry said Shah pleaded guilty to raping a woman, trying to suffocate her and setting her on fire.

two men convicted of rape were executed in a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the Etemad newspaper reported.

Wu Tianxi, 63, the former vice chairman of the Zhenping county committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was executed in Nanyang, in China’s Henan province.

Iran has hanged a man convicted of rape and murder in an execution carried out in a prison in the southern town of Estehban, the Kayhan newspaper reported.

Iran hanged two men convicted of murder in a prison in the central city of Isfahan, the Etemad newspaper reported.

the former head of Beijing airport's management company was executed in China for

three people, including a woman, were sentenced to death for their involvement in two

the Malaysian Federal Court upheld the death sentence imposed on a part-time taxi

the Ho High Court in Ghana, presided over by Justice Kofi Essel Mensah, sentenced

24 people were hanged in the prison of Rajaee Shahr, at Karaj (west of Tehran), according to a report published by the state run Iranian news website "Borna news".

Kenya's more than 4,000 death row inmates all will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, President Mwai Kibaki announced, describing their wait to face execution as "undue mental anguish and suffering."

Three men were hanged in the prison of Hamedan, western part of Iran, reported the