U.N. human rights experts called on Iraq's government not to carry out the death sentence passed on former leader Saddam Hussein, saying his trial had been seriously flawed.

the Kentucky Supreme Court rejected claims by death row inmates that the state's lethal injection process risks wanton and excruciating pain in violation of the ban on cruel and unusal punishments.

Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of repeated kidnapping and adultery in the southern province of Kerman, Fars news agency reported.

Bualoy Kothisit, 23, and Wichai Sonkhaoyai, 24, two Thai fishermen convicted of raping and murdering a 21-year-old British tourist on New Year's Day 2006, had their death sentences commuted to life

Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani

Abul Kalam Azad, a Bangladeshi man convicted of killing his newlywed wife after she failed to meet his demand for dowry, was hanged to death in the early morning.

a Yemeni court sentenced an Islamist to death and jailed another 25 for up to 11 years for plotting to assassinate officials and carry out attacks in the Gulf Arab country.

an Iraqi court sentenced to death an al-Qaida operative over the 2004 kidnapping and beheading of a Japanese hostage.

Pakistan's Senate overcame opposition from hard-line Muslim lawmakers and amended the rape law to make it easier to prosecute sexual assault cases.

Tehran’s public prosecutor’s office is seeking the death penalty for seven individuals accused of producing and distributing pornographic CDs which are banned in Islamic Iran.

a woman escaped a sentence of 'death by stoning' after her sentence for adultery was commuted by an appeal court to one-year imprisonment, 40 lashes and deportation.

Justice minister Jamal Karimi-Rad reaffirmed that Iran is not carrying out death sentences by stoning, despite such verdicts still being handed down to several adulterers.