Marco Pannella has announced he will resume his hunger strike to get European Governments to honour the solemn and repeated commitments they have made regarding the moratorium on the death penalty.

France's justice minister said an extradition treaty signed with China would not be applied to people accused of political or military crimes.

Saudi Arabia executed a convicted murderer in Riyadh. Salem bin Jumaian bin Khalif al-Shummari stabbed

Iraq executed Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan before dawn as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the US led war.

Those convicted of terror acts that cause death will now face the mandatory death penalty.

an Algerian court in Batna province sentenced to death in absentia two former leaders of an al Qaeda-

The number of death sentences meted out last year by Chinese courts hit a record low in more than a

Two women, Amunah Abdallah (23) and Sa'diah Fadul (22) were sentenced to death by stoning by the

The government of Iraq wants to abolish the death penalty, its human rights minister said. The first step

Last night, the ALDE group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) approved a proposal

the Tanzanian High Court sentenced four people to death by hanging for the murder of a prominent Dar es

an Iraqi court unanimously upheld the death sentence by hanging against Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's former deputy.