despite pleas for clemency from the Bush administration and European officials, a biomedical researcher

a Saudi Arabian man and a stateless Arab convicted of drug trafficking were

six men convicted for murder were sentenced to death in Pakistan.

two Israelis convicted of drug trafficking were sentenced to death by a Thai

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the western city of Borujerd. The Kayhan newspaper

the Lebanese government will use television to gain maximum attention for its plan to abolish the death

the Tanzanian Government said that the proposal to abolish the death penalty has come at the wrong time

the general manager of a bogus ant-breeding project that swindled 3 billion yuan (US$417 million) from

an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a newspaper reported.

Iran hanged nine men and a woman convicted of murder in Tehran's Evin prison, the Fars news agency reported.

Jamaica's Parliament easily rejected a proposal to ban the death penalty in a vote propelled by the country's

the capital punishment sentences issued by the Algerian Justice system against pe