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

Saudi Arabia executed two Saudis and a Pakistani man for drug smuggling, armed robbery and murder, local media reported.

the European Parliament adopted a joint resolution in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty, with 591 votes in favour, 45 against and 31 abstentions.

15 years after he was sentenced to death for murder, a police corporal, Mr. Sunday Udosen has been set

The French National Assembly unanimously decided to remove the death penalty from the French Consitution. ‘Noone can be sentenced to death,’ states the only article of the Consitutional Law Bill that modifies the VIII title of the Fundamental Charter.

Superior Court Judge Donald W. Stephens in Raleigh blocked two executions, creating a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in the state until it changes its lethal injection procedure.