in Iran, two men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in Tehran's main prison.
Three death row inmates were executed at detention centers in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.
Atef bin Mohammed al-Yassi was beheaded in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for beating to death Saud bin Mussaed al-Abdali with a piece of wood, official SPA news agency said in a statement.
a new scientific study of 41 lethal injections that took place in California and North
the Supreme Court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced two
Iraqi soldiers who desert their units now face execution, according to a decree by the country’s Presidential Council.
Tanzania is beginning to review its position on outlawing the death penalty after being put under fierce pressure from human rights watchdogs.
Iran recently hanged four men convicted of drug trafficking according to local media.
The radical organisations Hands Off Cain, the Italian Radicals, the Transnational Radical Party and the Coscioni Association have released the following statement:
Uganda's parliament passed a law that any HIV-positive person who wilfully infects a minor through sexual intercourse or rape will face the death penalty.
Iraq is now the world's fourth highest user of the death penalty, Amnesty International reported.
the Lusa News Agency reported that Portugal and Morocco ended a two day summit in Rabat with the signing a bilateral agreement on extradition.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
