a Sri Lankan national who was executed in Kuwait for murdering an Asian woman during a robbery remained alive five hours after he was hanged and pronounced dead, newspapers reported

the leaders of a Protestant group “Three Grades of Servants”, condemned to death without proof, were executed in secret last week, according to the China Aid Association (CAA), a US-based non-governmental organisation that lobbies for religious freedom in China.

Saudi Arabia beheaded an Egyptian who killed a Saudi man after an argument, the Interior Ministry said.

U.N. human rights experts called on Iraq's government not to carry out the death sentence passed on former leader Saddam Hussein, saying his trial had been seriously flawed.

the Kentucky Supreme Court rejected claims by death row inmates that the state's lethal injection process risks wanton and excruciating pain in violation of the ban on cruel and unusal punishments.

Iran publicly hanged a man convicted of repeated kidnapping and adultery in the southern province of Kerman, Fars news agency reported.

Bualoy Kothisit, 23, and Wichai Sonkhaoyai, 24, two Thai fishermen convicted of raping and murdering a 21-year-old British tourist on New Year's Day 2006, had their death sentences commuted to life

Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani

Abul Kalam Azad, a Bangladeshi man convicted of killing his newlywed wife after she failed to meet his demand for dowry, was hanged to death in the early morning.

a Yemeni court sentenced an Islamist to death and jailed another 25 for up to 11 years for plotting to assassinate officials and carry out attacks in the Gulf Arab country.

an Iraqi court sentenced to death an al-Qaida operative over the 2004 kidnapping and beheading of a Japanese hostage.

Pakistan's Senate overcame opposition from hard-line Muslim lawmakers and amended the rape law to make it easier to prosecute sexual assault cases.