Texas executed a man by lethal injection for the 1993 rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl.

a Yemeni court sentenced two Palestinian brothers to death and a third to prison for

three Iranians convicted of kidnapping and then raping a woman

Around 3000 people marched in Rome calling on the government to help speed the adoption of a UN resolution for a world moratorium on death penalty.

a Saudi man convicted of fatally shooting another Saudi over a dispute was beheaded, the Interior Ministry said.

The General Assembly turned back Gov. Tim Kaine's vetoes of three bills that expand

a federal appeals court refused to intervene in the case of a U.S. citizen facing a death

Saudi Arabia executed Majid bin Othman bin Mohammed al-Adani, a Yemeni man

In a unanimous decision, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ruled that a woman forced to have intercourse (zina-bil-jabr) should not be

an Iraqi prosecutor sought the death penalty for Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan

Hands off Cain and the Nonviolent Transnational Radical Party, with the patronage of the Mayor of Rome, and the National Association of Municipalities promote, together with the Comunità di Sant'Egidio, a march in support of a moratorium of capital executions to be adopted by the current UN General Assembly.

Two Palestinians were arrested last week after it was revealed they had sold a house to Israeli Jews living in