five drug traffickers were executed in Birjand in northeast
Chile, Ecuador and Mexico have confirmed their support for the UN initiative for a moratorium
the Mali government announced it adopted a bill for the abolition of the death penalty
Iranian authorities hanged eight men and a woman in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported.
the planned execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, or "Chemical Ali," was further delayed
Iran hanged three convicted rapists in public in the southern city of Shiraz, the
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to sign in the near future the death
South Korea will be declared as having abolished the death penalty "in practice"
the execution of a convicted murderer in Nevada was stayed at the 11th hour on Monday after an appeal by rights groups over the method of lethal injection to be used.
a young Iranian woman accused of killing an 80 year old man who allegedly held her prisoner in his home may be executed within days.
a criminal court in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sentenced three people to death for attacking the residence of a French diplomat two years ago.
two Iranians, Kiumars and Nader Mohammadi have been hanged in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan province, authorities announced.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
