The Chinese justice system has condemned six Protestant leaders to death for homicide and fraud.

two Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in the southern city of Kerman, reports said.

Parliament has approved the death penalty for jeopardising public safety or damaging public utilities during its initial stages of review of the first anti-terrorism draft law in Bahrain.

a murder convict was hanged to death in Balochistan’s Machh Jail this morning.

a court in southern Iran has sentenced a man to ten times execution, the official news agency reported.

brothers Ilyas and Ghulam Abbas and their cousin Asif were hanged till death at Gujranwala central jail, Pakistan, for the murder of five people.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he hoped former President Saddam Hussein, under trial for crimes against humanity, would be executed soon.

a Vietnamese court upheld the death sentences of eight people, including two women, for trafficking heroin from neighbouring Laos and Cambodia, a court official said.

a former US soldier was arrested and charged with killing four Iraqi civilians and raping one of the female victims, US officials said.

the American Society of Anesthesiologists called on its members not to attend executions of death sentences by lethal injection, even if called to do so by a court.

Moldova's parliament unanimously supported the definitive exclusion from the country's Constitution of Paragraph 3 of Article 24 allowing the use of death penalty in exceptional cases.