in China's latest move to control the use of the death penalty, the chief justice urged courts to exercise extreme caution when sentencing people to death, saying that every judgement must stand the test of time.

a question time was held at the Foreign Commission of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies regarding the death penalty handed down to Saddam Hussein.

Saudi Arabia executed three Pakistanis, including two women, for drugs smuggling, taking to 20 the number of reported executions in the conservative kingdom in 2006.

Hands Off Cain President Marco Pannella reaffirmed his availability to be appointed to Iraq in order to save Saddam Hussein from the death penalty, underlining that he would have to be given the task by the Italian government.

a U.N. rights expert urged Iraqi authorities not to carry out Saddam Hussein's death sentence and called for an international tribunal to either retry or handle the appeals process for Iraq's former dictator.

according to Rooz daily, “In May 2006, a man and a woman identified as Abbass H. and Mahboubeh M. were stoned to death in the northern city of Mashhad”.

following the death sentence handed down to Saddam Hussein, Sergio D’Elia, Secretary Gen. of Hands Off Cain, and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Treasurer, declared: “A court formed by Shiites and Kurds condemned to death the Sunni Saddam.

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.

Barakat bin Sadun bin Raja' al-Outaibi, a Saudi man, was put to death in the capital Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian woman for drugs smuggling.

Morocco has the political will to abolish the death penalty, which has not been applied since 1993, the country’s justice minister told a newspaper.

Saudi Arabia beheaded two foreign nationals on charges they smuggled heroin and cocaine into the country, the Interior Ministry said.