death sentences handed down by Chinese courts were at a ten-year low in 2006 and the trend continues in

Hands Off Cain will present, tomorrow, it's annual report on the death penalty and the Award for the 'Abolitionist of the year'.

Premier Romano Prodi defended Italy’s opposition to the death penalty after Rome's criticism of Iran’s use of capital punishment escalated into a diplomatic fight.

Tsehaye Woldeselassie, an army major, was executed in Ethiopia for murdering

North Korea has publicly executed a trade official for smuggling timber

Saudi Arabia beheaded five Pakistanis and a Nigerian for drug smuggling

Iran rejected protests by the European Union over the increased number of executions

a lawmaker called for the scrapping of the death penalty to avoid jeopardising

Italy voiced its "deep concern" over the recent executions in Iran and asked Tehran to suspend the death penalty handed down against two Iranian-Kurdish journalists.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of 97 prisoners who were on death row, according to a statement released in Lusaka

Shabbir Ahmad, who was involved in a murder case in the jurisdiction

Members of Parliament in Kenya defeated a Motion seeking to abolish the death penalty