A Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a fellow citizen was beheaded

A draft amendment to China's Criminal Law remained unchanged in reducing

twelve people were hanged in Iran, in two different cases.

More than 1,800 people called for the abolition of the death penalty

Iraq has executed 257 people, including six women, since 2005, deputy justice minister Busho

A US state executed a convicted murderer with an animal drug for the first time because of an anesthetic shortage.

Justice Joseph Enwa Ikpala of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul, The

the Chongqing First Intermediate People's Court in China sentenced Tan

Judge Moustapha Shinawi of the Appeals court in the United Arab Emirates upheld

A South Korean appeals court overturned a death sentence passed on a 33-year-old

in Florida, a Marion County jury recommended 7-5 that Emilia Carr, 26, white,

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini today met with members from Hands Off Cain and the Sant’Egidio Community to find a solution, with respect to free trade, to prevent pentotal produced in Italy for ending up, directly or indirectly, in jails in the United States and other countries where lethal injection is used.