Ghana’s President, John Kufuor, freed or commuted the sentences of 1,206 prisoners to mark the 50th

inspired by Iranian Nobel Prize Shrin Ebadi's plea, Hands Off Cain decided to dedicate this year's International Women's Day, March 8, to all Iranian woman, particularly to the activists arrested last Sunday.

Texas executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.

efforts to stop the imminent execution of three Iraqi women seem to have had an effect, as the executions of

approved by the state House of Representatives, Texas is trying to pass a Bill to harshly prosecute child

The Ethiopian Federal Supreme Court upheld death sentences passed by the Federal High Court on five

Saudi Arabia executed a man convicted of murder. Miftah bin Hilal al-Fahmi was executed in the province

The Florida commission charged with examining the state’s botched execution of Angel Diaz has urged

Two Chikombedzi brothers, Size, 24, and Boy Sithole, 22, have been sentenced to death for gunning down

a special court in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, sentenced three people, including an army captain, to death for

a young man convicted of child rape and murder was hanged in a prison in the northern Iranian

“Our confidence in the Government depends on their commitment to take the proposed Universal Moratorium on Capital Punishment to the UN,” Sergio D'Elia, the radical Rosa nel Pugno MP, stated today in the House debate on the vote of confidence.