Iran recently hanged four men convicted of drug trafficking according to local media.

The radical organisations Hands Off Cain, the Italian Radicals, the Transnational Radical Party and the Coscioni Association have released the following statement:

Uganda's parliament passed a law that any HIV-positive person who wilfully infects a minor through sexual intercourse or rape will face the death penalty.

Iraq is now the world's fourth highest user of the death penalty, Amnesty International reported.

the Lusa News Agency reported that Portugal and Morocco ended a two day summit in Rabat with the signing a bilateral agreement on extradition.

during his visit to Algiers, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Massimo D'Alema, explained that submitting the resolution on the moratorium on capital punishment depended on the outcome of the Council of General Affairs.

Parliament should take urgent steps to abolish the death penalty in Kenya. It should freeze all current death sentences and transfer convicts on the death row to life imprisonment, through a Presidential declaration.

Italy earned the backing of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in its drive to ban the death penalty worldwide.

the South African government would not resort to the death penalty in spite of high

four brothers were hanged in Multan, Pakistan, for murdering

a Saudi man convicted of raping minors was executed by beheading in Riyadh, the

a Nigerian presidential commission has submitted a string of bold proposals to President Olusegun Obasanjo that could transform the penal system in Nigeria overnight