Europe will intensify its efforts to abolish capital punishment throughout the world by establishing an annual European Day against the death penalty on October 10, European Union officials said

a Moroccan appeals court upheld the death sentence of a 25 year old man convicted of murdering an Italian

Marco Pannella, Sergio D'Elia, Lucio Bertè, Valter Vecellio, Claudia Sterzi, Guido Biancardi, Michele Rana, all on a indefinite hunger strike since April 16, issued the following statement. "If the news from Luxembourg on the outcome of the EU Council of General Affairs is confirmed, then we welcome the fact that the presentation of the Moratorium resolution to the UN General Assembly will not be postponed forever.

the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a moratorium on executions in the state

trials that could lead to a death sentence will be subjected to further openness and transparency in

Iran hanged four men convicted of drug trafficking in the southern

52 Nobel Prizes have already joined the Transnational Radical Party and Hand

today the committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved a resolution

During a press conference held at the Radical Party, party leader, Marco Pannella, said: “we continue our non violent action. I urge the Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, along with the group of countries from all continents that have already showed their participation, to submit the final project for the resolution for the universal moratorium on the death penalty within the next few hours

The news that a young man has been executed in Tehran for raping and killing a woman has been met with

Days after Rwanda scrapped the death penalty, an international court trying those accused of

the former head of China's food and drug agency has appealed his death sentence on a corruption