the US Supreme Court stayed the execution of Michael Taylor, an inmate in the midwestern state of Missouri who has argued that lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

the US Supreme Court halted the execution of Arthur Dennis Rutherford

Lin Hau Yang and Edy Tang, on death row in Bangkok, had their death sentences for drug convictions confirmed by the Thai high court, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said.

two men have been executed in Iran, one for serial kidnapping and drug dealing and the other for murder.

as Vernon Evans sat in his cell on Maryland's Death Row last spring, he had more to ponder than his own execution.

Jaime Elizalde Jr., was put to death by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of two men outside a Houston cantina. Elizalde, 34, was condemned for shooting Juan Saenz Guajardo, 29, and Marcos Sanchez Vasquez, 33, on November 5, 1994.

an Iranian man convicted of murdering the aged parents of the woman he had hoped to marry was hanged in a prison in the southern city of Bandar Abbas, the Etemad-e-Melli newspaper said.

a court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced five people to death

Saudi Arabia must publicly commit to ending the execution of juvenile offenders, as the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended on January 27, Human Rights Watch said.

“The fact that prosecutors in Bali have

an Iranian man was convicted and sentenced to death for kidnapping and raping an estimated 340 young girls, media reports said.

an Iranian man convicted of murder and armed robberies was hanged in public in the southern city of Shiraz, the official news agency IRNA reported.