Foreign Minister Franco Frattini today met with members from Hands Off Cain and the Sant’Egidio Community to find a solution, with respect to free trade, to prevent pentotal produced in Italy for ending up, directly or indirectly, in jails in the United States and other countries where lethal injection is used.

Presiding Judge Eisa Al Sharif of the Dubai Appeal Court rejected the appeal of Russian, S.A., 31, and Ukrainian, S.N., 35, against their death sentences in the United Arab Emirates.

Iraq has 835 people waiting to be executed, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said, just

the Aden Specialized Criminal Court in Yemen sentenced Faris Abdullah Saleh to death

Saudi Arabian Abdullah al-Ameri was executed by beheading for murdering a woman

the Hands Off Cain mission for the abolition of the death penalty in Ghana concluded. The mission was also to convince the country to vote favourably for the pro moratorium resolution in discussion at the United Nations.

a Malaysian court sentenced a 41-year-old Indian national to death for drug trafficking.

After the missions in Zambia, Mali and Congo-Brazaville, the Hands Off Cain campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa continues in Ghana.

For the second time this month, the Cuban Supreme Court commuted the death

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is under court

the Permanent Military Court in Gaza sentenced Mamdouh Mohammed 'Eid al-'Attar, residing inside the Green Line, to death by hanging. He was convicted of collaboration with hostile parties (Israel). The sentence was issued in absentia.

The issue of capital punishment in Belarus should be revisited, said President Alexander