“Italy has always been first in line against the death penalty” and it is “an obligation to continue to fight for the inviolability of life and against the culture of death.” This was the warning of the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, against capital punishment. He said this in a message sent on occasion of the ceremony awarding the "Abolitionist of the Year 2009” Prize, given by Hands Off Cain to the Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, and Parliamentarian Gail Chasey.

China is to reduce the number of people it executes to "an extremely small number", a top court official says.

a court in the breakaway Somali province of Somaliland sentenced five men to death in

Japan hanged three inmates convicted of multiple murders including a Chinese national

Ri Hyon Ok, a Christian woman accused of distributing the Bible, a book banned in

state-run Iranian radio reported that Seyyed Ahmad Es’hagh zahi was executed in the prison of Zahedan for being involved in carrying heroin and hashish

two members of the Jundallah group, lead by Abdolmalik Rigi, were hanged in Iran.

five young Egyptians were sentenced to death for hurling a teenager to his death

a Saudi Arabian man who shot to death a compatriot following an argument

two people were sentenced to death by a Malindi court in Kenya for violently robbing a

the Ndola High Court in Zambia sentenced three villagers of Chiengi in Luapula

a judge of the Minsk Regional Court in Belarus sentenced a 25-year-old man to death