politicians from leading parties and prominent human rights activists

a Libyan court confirmed a death sentence against six foreign

Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Massimo D'Alema publicly thanked his South African colleague Nkosazama Dlamini Zuma for the African country’s support for the proposed UN Moratorium against capital punishment.

the execution of former State Food and Drug Administration director Zheng Xiaoyu

a man convicted of adultery was stoned to death in a village in northwestern Iran, the first time judiciary has confirmed such an execution in five years.

Iraqi Justice Ministry spokesman Busho Ibrahim said Oras Muhammad Abdul-Aziz

'We thank the Brazilian Government of President Lula for its decision to be a co-sponsor of the resolution for the Moratorium on capital punishment that the EU intends

government forces in Somalia publicly executed two men, one of them a soldier

in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, Marvin Nedd, 23, of Longdenville was convicted of

at the beginning of the Portuguese term as EU President

China's top court will ensure the death penalty is applied uniformly across the

The Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) decided to remove the expression "death penalty" from its draft