a cross-party group of Japanese legislators drafted a bill proposing
despite widespread international calls by humanitarian organizations for stay of
the US military is requesting the death penalty for six terrorist suspects accused
in Hoeryo'ng, the North Hamgyo'ng Provincial Court pronounced on December
The Nebraska Supreme Court struck down the state's sole means of execution,
Iran hanged a man for murdering four boys, Tehran Emrooz newspaper reported. The man, who was not identified, was to have been hanged in public in the central city of Yazd.
the relatives of eight expatriate Bangladeshi workers sentenced to death by a
the Iranian Parliament is reviewing a draft penal code that for the first time in
Gulamali Mallick became the first person in Mumbai, India, to
"I am not worried for his life. I'm sure Afghanistan's justice system will
the Council of Europe, the continent's main rights watchdog, condemned
the prominent Iranian Arab separatist Zamel Bavi was hanged in
