China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) will send back cases involving death sentence to provincial courts for retrial if it finds errors in judgement, instead of directly changing the sentence, according to a regulation released by the SPC.

The Malaysian Federal Court dismissed an appeal by Thai national Wichai Onprom against a death

Donald Miller, 44, was executed for a robbery and shooting 25 years ago that left two men dead.

The Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, told the Senate: “Recently we have engaged in a significant battle against the death penalty.

Saudi Arabia executed a convicted Nigerian cocaine smuggler, the second Nigerian drug trafficker to be put

Justice Minister George Kunda told the Zambian Parliament that the death penalty will stay on the statute

a young man convicted of child rape was publicly hanged in Iran's central clerical capital of Qom, the

Sheika Haya Rashed al-Kalifa, president of the UN General Assembly, has confirmed her commitment to ensure Italy's initiative for the universal moratorium on capital punishment is successful. At the end of a

the Democratic-controlled Senate gave preliminary approval to the abolition of the death penalty in

Human Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia violated international law when it beheaded four Sri Lankan

US soldier Paul E Cortez, 24, admitted gang raping and murdering 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim al-

the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that, in 2006, Iraqi courts sentenced 235 persons to death