a man was sentenced to death in eastern China for raping 21 young girls.

"we are happy that President Raul Castro has commuted almost all death sentences in Cuba," Sergio D'Elia, Hands Off Cain Secretary, said.

the Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death condemned the manner in which

with capital punishment in the country abolished, the Supreme Court of

China's top legislature approved extradition treaties with Australia and France. The treaty

the Supreme Court in Lagos, Nigeria, confirmed the death sentence of Abdullahi Ada, who, eight years ago,

a Qatari man was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his aunt following a fight about money. The

New Cuban President Raul Castro announced that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms o

the Hebron Military Court imposed the death penalty on a man convicted of collaborating with Israeli security, raising the possibility of the first such execution in seven years.

two men were hanged for drug trafficking in the main prison of Qom, Iran. The prisoners were identified only as Mahmood, 47, and Ghodrat, 56.

two Pakistanis and a Syrian convicted of smuggling drugs were beheaded by the

China's top court interrogated a death penalty defendant via a video link for the