Tsehaye Woldeselassie, an army major, was executed in Ethiopia for murdering

North Korea has publicly executed a trade official for smuggling timber

Saudi Arabia beheaded five Pakistanis and a Nigerian for drug smuggling

Iran rejected protests by the European Union over the increased number of executions

a lawmaker called for the scrapping of the death penalty to avoid jeopardising

Italy voiced its "deep concern" over the recent executions in Iran and asked Tehran to suspend the death penalty handed down against two Iranian-Kurdish journalists.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of 97 prisoners who were on death row, according to a statement released in Lusaka

Shabbir Ahmad, who was involved in a murder case in the jurisdiction

Members of Parliament in Kenya defeated a Motion seeking to abolish the death penalty

Iran hanged nine men sentenced to death for rape, armed robbery and other offences, most of them executed in public in front of a crowd of onlookers, state media reported.

a Tehran revolutionary court sentenced journalist Emadoldin Baghi to three years in prison

a divisional special court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced two people to death