Saudi Arabia beheaded Ahmed Bin Mohammed Farajallah for murdering Ethiopian taxi driver Mohammed

the Georgia House voted 106-65 to approve bill HB185 (see also March 12).

Shaker al-Absi, head of Fatah Islam, a group based in a Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp, has been

a High Court session in Gulu sentenced six people hang for murder, as 12 judges are in northern Uganda to

about 600 people are now crammed into Nigeria's disease-infested death rows.

Utah’s Governor Jon Huntsman signed laws that expand the death penalty in cases

a man was executed in Texas for fatally shooting a convenience store owner during a robbery in Dallas nearly 10 years ago.

Marco Pannella has announced he will resume his hunger strike to get European Governments to honour the solemn and repeated commitments they have made regarding the moratorium on the death penalty.

France's justice minister said an extradition treaty signed with China would not be applied to people accused of political or military crimes.

Saudi Arabia executed a convicted murderer in Riyadh. Salem bin Jumaian bin Khalif al-Shummari stabbed

Iraq executed Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan before dawn as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the US led war.

Those convicted of terror acts that cause death will now face the mandatory death penalty.