Bahrain is to keep the death penalty for drug traffickers. The Shura Council voted overwhelmingly in favour

The European Union parliament called on member states to reconsider their relations with Libya unless it releases six foreign medics

An Iranian convicted of murdering his brother and sister-in-law as well as their two children 27 years ago was hanged in the central city of Isfahan, the government newspaper Iran reported.

“I want to convince the Mayors of all European cities to take a stand and keep up the battle against the death penalty,” Walter Veltroni, the Mayor of Rome, said.

the European Union vowed to step up efforts aimed at a global ban of the death penalty in the wake of the recent executions of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and two of his co-defendants.

President Bush said the Iraqi government had "fumbled"

the leaders of all political groups of the European Parliament, with the exception of the extreme right, have signed a declaration for a universal moratorium on capital punishment in view of its abolition.

the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso

an Iranian court dropped a death sentence against a teenager convicted of stabbing to death one of three men who

Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man for murdering another Saudi national after an argument, in the first execution reported in the kingdom in 2007, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.