the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry said that Abdullah Suleiman, a Yemeni man convicted of murder, was
Amnesty International said that the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13 years old, not 23,
a Saudi Arabian convicted of rape was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh, the interior
A former plumbing supply salesman was executed in Texas for strangling and raping
An Iraqi court sentenced a militant to death by hanging for the killing of three U.S. soldiers in 2006.
Japan hanged two more death-row inmates as the country steps up executions to a pace unseen in three decades, despite an ongoing UN review of its rights record.
Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking, the Fars news agency reported. The executions took
thousands of people gathered to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in
overseas Filipino worker Jenifer Bedoya, who was beheaded in Saudi Arabia, thought he was about to be released, according to family.
North Korea is using public executions to intimidate its citizens, the UN investigator on human rights in the
the Sudanese Supreme Court in Khartoum rejected an appeal by lawyer Kamal Umar Abd-al-Salam
Troy Davis, who has spent 17 years on death row for the murder of a policeman, was granted
