Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of 97 prisoners who were on death row, according to a statement released in Lusaka

Shabbir Ahmad, who was involved in a murder case in the jurisdiction

Members of Parliament in Kenya defeated a Motion seeking to abolish the death penalty

Iran hanged nine men sentenced to death for rape, armed robbery and other offences, most of them executed in public in front of a crowd of onlookers, state media reported.

a Tehran revolutionary court sentenced journalist Emadoldin Baghi to three years in prison

a divisional special court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced two people to death

nine Egyptians on death row in Libya escaped capital punishment after the families of their

Iran's judiciary for the first time confirmed that two Iranian Kurdish journalists have been sentenced to death for being "enemies of God."

a Chinese court sentenced two men to death for masterminding a plot to steal oil from

Jordan's King Abdullah II commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants

six men sentenced to death in Yemen for murder and banditry were executed in

the superintendent of a prison in the Pakistani port city of Karachi raises