Kansas prison escapee was executed for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy who was trying to pull him over for stealing $22.50 worth of gasoline from a service station.

at today's joint session of the Kazakhstan parliament's two chambers, President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Curtis Edward McCarty, who had been sentenced to die three times and has spent 21 years on Oklahoma's

three brothers were sentenced to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 32-year-old woman after they

an Iraqi national was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of smuggling hashish into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.

at the end of the Meeting of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Vice Premier Massimo D'Alema announced that the EU ministers have unanimously given Italy and the German presidency the task to prepare the text for the resolution on the moratorium for the death penalty, which is to be presented at the current UN General Assembly.

Iran publicly hanged 15 men convicted of drug trafficking in the northeastern city of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi province.

Not a single person sentenced to death has been executed in Uzbekistan since 2005, Justice Minister Fozilzhon Otakhonov told Interfax.

"My Government is already committed to reopening the question of the UN Moratorium on Capital Punishment during the current General Assembly.

“Yesterday’s ‘rumours’ originated from diplomatic sources in Brussels who confirmed that the EU Presidency intended to postpone all possible decisions until June. This passes the baton to the Portuguese President and makes the presentation of the Resolution on the Moratorium to the current General Assembly impossible.” So begins the joint declaration of Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, and Matteo Mecacci, the Transnational Radical Party’s UN Representative.

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said in

a State Senate committee passed a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penalty since states began reinstating their capital punishment laws more than three decades ago.