a Tunisian man was sentenced to death for the rape and murder last year of British

the Italian Minister of the European Policies Emma Bonino told Radio Radicale she is

"The Italian Council of Ministers gave Minister of Foreign Affair Massimo D'Alema the task of presenting the proposal for the abolition of the death penalty and the corresponding moratorium at the next EU Council of General Affairs on April 23rd. This is a necessary step for the moratorium to be presented at the UN". This was reported in a press release by the Italian Council of Ministers, gathered at Palazzo Chigi by Prime Minister Romano Prodi and State Secretary Enrico Letta.

the Law Society has called for the scrapping of the mandatory death penalty in Singapore for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and firearms-related offences.

the Italian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Massimo D'Alema, gave his

discussing the initiative for the UN moratorium on capital punishment, the Italian

Texas executed a man by lethal injection for the 1993 rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl.

a Yemeni court sentenced two Palestinian brothers to death and a third to prison for

three Iranians convicted of kidnapping and then raping a woman

Around 3000 people marched in Rome calling on the government to help speed the adoption of a UN resolution for a world moratorium on death penalty.

a Saudi man convicted of fatally shooting another Saudi over a dispute was beheaded, the Interior Ministry said.

The General Assembly turned back Gov. Tim Kaine's vetoes of three bills that expand