in only the second case of its kind in Ahmedabad state, a man was sentenced to death by a Nadiad

a Malian man convicted of serial robbery and attempted rape was put to death by the sword in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.

a Pakistani man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca after the victim's family refused "blood money."

Saudi authorities announced the beheading of a citizen convicted of drug trafficking.

Iran hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in the northern town of Noshahr, Fars news agency reported.

the Provincial judiciary department announced that verdicts were passed for the execution of three people for drug smuggling.

Four men and one woman were hanged in a Tehran jail for murder, with two others given

an Islamic body in Nigeria issued a death sentence on a man who married 80 women when Islam allows a maximum of four, the Guardian newspaper reported.

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'.