a man was executed by lethal injection in Texas for strangling his wife and two stepdaughters a decade ago. James Lewis Jackson, a 47-year-old gardener, was the fourth inmate put to death this year in Texas, which has the highest execution rate in the US.

the Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded two Iraqi men, Jabbar Karim Saeed Abu Alya and Ali Hamza

a female land agent was sentenced to death in Ho Chi Minh City for bribery, cover-up and trickery. The

a court in Tehran sentenced to death Tahmineh Danesh, 35, a Kurdish woman arrested two years ago for murdering a man who was

The Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris concluded with a message from Pope

an officer and a sergeant from the border guard patrol in North Korea have been sentenced to execution for

the death penalty is under what may be an unprecedented review in the United States, mostly involving

an Iranian rights group said that a Tehran appeals court upheld a death sentence against Delara Darabi, 20, who allegedly killed a cousin three years ago when was minor.

“The World Congress Against Death Penalty - in its 3-day Paris assembly which we attended as Hands Off Cain and Nonviolent Radial Party with Marco Pannella, Elisabetta Zamparutti, Marco Perduca, Antonio Stango and Max Rizzo - will end with a demonstration in Place de la Bastille”, Radical MEP Marco Cappato stated.

Morocco will remove by the end of April the death penalty from its statute books, the president of the state

after two years in prison, Iranian teen Nazanin Fatehi was released and spared from her original death sentence following an international campaign spearheaded by former Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam.

The foreign minister denies reports that Denmark opposed an Italian initiative to ban capital punishment