the Provincial judiciary department announced that verdicts were passed for the execution of three people for drug smuggling.

Four men and one woman were hanged in a Tehran jail for murder, with two others given

an Islamic body in Nigeria issued a death sentence on a man who married 80 women when Islam allows a maximum of four, the Guardian newspaper reported.

Iran hanged a man convicted of raping and murdering a relative in the prison of Tabriz (northwest Iran), reported the state run news agency ISCAnews

the Iranian governement hanged a man convicted of murder in the northeastern town of Bojnourd, a press report said.

Saudi Arabia executed two Pakistanis convicted of smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Ela Gandhi signed the appeal for Marco Pannella's non violent initiative for the 'Moratorium on capital punishment, even for Tareq Aziz'.

Iran hanged a man for a murder committed at the age of 15, the second execution in a week that

a former Iraqi cabinet minister was sentenced to death for ordering

fifty-two people in Trinidad & Tobago convicted of murder had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment after Justice Nolan Bereaux at the Port-of-Spain High Court ruled in favour of a Constitutional motion brought by the prisoners, that they be removed from Death Row.

Iran suspended the punishment of death by stoning, state media announced.

Kargozaran newspaper said that Iran’s judiciary has approved the death sentence for a young man who committed murder as a minor.