a man, identified as Shanuz Morovati, was hanged in a public square in Iran after
Amnesty International has urged doctors and nurses not to participate in
two men in Papua New Guinea who murdered a woman by chopping her head off
Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrates Court in
the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay of execution to Heliberto
three states in Nigeria- Ebonyi, Katsina and Sokoto - released a total of 86
the two presidential candidates in Guatemala’s November 4 runoff election have
The Nueces County District Attorney’s Office put a hold on
Rwanda joined other countries in appealing for a global moratorium on
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, the mullahs’ Judiciary Chief Advisor and an ideologue
the militant Radicals, committed to a hunger strike to support the UN Moratorium on capital punishment, have decided to suspend their non violent action.
The US Supreme Court stepped to halt the execution of a Texas man convicted of killing his parents nine years ago.
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
