a Saudi court ordered the bodies of four Sri Lankans to be displayed in a public square after being

Italy is "working hard, within the shortest period of time, to hold a debate and a vote at the UN General Assembly on the proposal for the universal moratorium on capital punishment", Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Massimo D'Alema, announced in the Italian Senate.

a Moroccan court sentenced a man to death for killing an Italian diplomat and his Belgian spouse.

the number of inmates slated for execution in Japan hit 100, with a fifth of the sentences coming in the last

Senators and lower house lawmakers wrote the banning of the death penalty into the French Constitution.

a Nigerian man was executed by sword in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The man, identified as Omar, was

Iranian authorities in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern Iran, hanged a man in public for his alleged role in last

Iran's Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence of a 20 year old woman identified as Darabi,

Noor Muhammad, alias Mirch Kalhoro, was executed for murder in Larkana Central Prison, Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia executed four Sri Lankans for a series of violent robberies in the conservative kingdom. A

Russia has signed the "Declaration of Association" on the death penalty that was presented to the UN by the

Chinese court has ordered the death penalty for a businessman accused of deceiving investors out of 385