Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said in

a State Senate committee passed a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penalty since states began reinstating their capital punishment laws more than three decades ago.

In Zambia, President Levy Mwanawasa maintained that he will not sign any warrants to hang people that

an Ethiopian woman was beheaded by the sword in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the interior

Iran publicly hanged five men convicted of drug trafficking in the southern town of Ravar in Kerman province, the governmental Iran newspaper reported.

a 30 year old women identified as Zahra Nazari was hanged in the main prison of Iran's southern city of

A man convicted of killing a Memphis police officer in 1981 was executed after a court rejected defense pleas for more time to examine newly revised execution protocols

an appeals court in Doha, Qatar, commuted the death sentences issued to three Iranians to life sentences

the Sindh Provincial High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, threw out a lower court's death sentence against a

two Thai nationals, Shalirm Yonha Koy and Smnoq Mintcho Keet, were beheaded in the Saudi Arabian city of Al Dammam for drug smuggling.

a motion hailing the Italian initiative on the moratorium on capital punishment was presented to the UK

Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the southern town of Roodan in Hormozgan province, according to the student ISNA news agency.