news reports stated that Saudi Arabian authorities approved the execution order of a Turkish
a three member bench of the Pakistani Supreme Court directed the attorney general to report whether
five people convicted of murder in Iran were pardoned by the victims' families "in the last
Iran has hanged 12 convicted criminals, including nine drug traffickers and three rapists, the latest in a growing number of executions in the Islamic republic, reports said.
The state of North Carolina dropped all charges against Levon Jones, and he was freed after
ongoing penal code reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo is giving abolitionists the chance to
Zargar Sadajan, Roajan Sodajar, and Naik Mohammed Malak Mohammed, all Pakistanis, were
Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the central city
pro-Taliban militants in the Pakistan's tribal areas beheaded a 35 year old policeman in Peshawar, accusing
a man was sentenced to death in eastern China for raping 21 young girls.
"we are happy that President Raul Castro has commuted almost all death sentences in Cuba," Sergio D'Elia, Hands Off Cain Secretary, said.
the Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death condemned the manner in which
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
