the Yahar Primary Court in Lahj, Yemen, sentenced Mohsen Yahia Munassar to death for the shooting
Norimichi Kumamoto, a former judge who in 1968 sentenced a pro boxer to
a court in eastern Wenzhou city, China, has handed death sentences with a two-year reprieve to
The execution of people under the age of 18 has "practically stopped" in Iran and the government is
Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as ``Chemical Ali,'' and two other regime
a Chinese court has sentenced 14 gang members to death for murder
Iran has publicly hanged a man convicted of murder in the western city of Khorramabad,
The application of the death penalty in Indonesia is likely
Iran should immediately suspend the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by
Under pressure to reduce its huge number of annual executions as it prepares
Breaking the hesitations and faltering of the past, the Council of EU Foreign Ministers
Europe will intensify its efforts to abolish capital punishment throughout the world by establishing an annual European Day against the death penalty on October 10, European Union officials said
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
