Iran hanged a man convicted of raping and murdering a relative in the prison of Tabriz (northwest Iran), reported the state run news agency ISCAnews

the Iranian governement hanged a man convicted of murder in the northeastern town of Bojnourd, a press report said.

Saudi Arabia executed two Pakistanis convicted of smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Ela Gandhi signed the appeal for Marco Pannella's non violent initiative for the 'Moratorium on capital punishment, even for Tareq Aziz'.

Iran hanged a man for a murder committed at the age of 15, the second execution in a week that

a former Iraqi cabinet minister was sentenced to death for ordering

fifty-two people in Trinidad & Tobago convicted of murder had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment after Justice Nolan Bereaux at the Port-of-Spain High Court ruled in favour of a Constitutional motion brought by the prisoners, that they be removed from Death Row.

Iran suspended the punishment of death by stoning, state media announced.

Kargozaran newspaper said that Iran’s judiciary has approved the death sentence for a young man who committed murder as a minor.

the public relations unit of the Sistan-Baluchestan Province judiciary department in Iran announced that the Zahedan Islamic Revolution Court issued a ruling on the execution of Bahram Nikpur.

Iran hanged a man for a murder committed at the age of 15, in violation of an international convention on child rights, reports said. Reza Hejazi, 20, was hanged in a prison in the central city of Isfahan for stabbing a man to death in a fight in 2003, the reformist Etemad newspaper said.

Iran hanged two convicted of drug smuggling inside a Tehran prison, the state run news agency Quds reported