the directors of Hands Off Cain, Sergio D'Elia, secretary of the association and Rosa Nel

judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi announced that 20

a 25-year-old East Texas native was executed by lethal injection for the torture and slaying

the Rwandan Senate approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, according to

the European Parliament expressed its disappointment with the Libyan Supreme

politicians from leading parties and prominent human rights activists

a Libyan court confirmed a death sentence against six foreign

Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Massimo D'Alema publicly thanked his South African colleague Nkosazama Dlamini Zuma for the African country’s support for the proposed UN Moratorium against capital punishment.

the execution of former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu

a man convicted of adultery was stoned to death in a village in northwestern Iran, the first time judiciary has confirmed such an execution in five years.

Iraqi Justice Ministry spokesman Busho Ibrahim said Oras Muhammad Abdul-Aziz

'We thank the Brazilian Government of President Lula for its decision to be a co-sponsor of the resolution for the Moratorium on capital punishment that the EU intends