the UN General Assembly received a draft resolution signed by 72 countries calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty.

House lawmakers overwhelmingly reject a bill to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts.

Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence handed to Kurdish journalist

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the

According to the Iraqi news agency Aswat al-Iraq, 11 people in Iraq are facing

Iran publicly hanged two Afghans for the rape of a Dutch woman, state news

in Algeria, the Tizi Ouzou Criminal Court sentenced 10 to death in absentia for terrorism. The

the Botswana Department of Prisons and Rehabilitation confirmed the hanging of death row inmate Sepeni

Thema Joina, the lawyer of Sepeni Popo, said his

Vietnam is considering the possibility of reducing the number of economic offences, excluding corruption

the UN General Assembly received a draft resolution signed by 72 countries calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi began a push for a UN resolution to ban capital punishment worldwide in January, after the execution of toppled former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the southeastern province of