Mohammed bin Ali al-Kahali, a Yemeni, was beheaded in the southern city of Najran in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of murdering compatriot Saleh bin Ahmed al-Kahali with a cleaver.

Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for murder, the third execution in three days in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

a South Korean army court martial sentenced Private First Class Kim Dong-min to death for killing eight soldiers while on guard duty on the border with North Korea, an army spokesman said.

Subhas Anandan, one of Singapore's top criminal defence lawyers, said the city-state should abandon its use of the mandatory death penalty.

Ahmad bin Ojab bin Faisal Al-Muhaidli Al-Otaibi was executed in Riyadh after he was convicted of shooting dead a compatriot following an argument, the interior ministry announced.

a decade after Ruben Cantu was executed for capital murder, the only witness to the crime is recanting and his co-defendant says Cantu, then 17, wasn't even with him that night.

three Iranian men convicted of raping and kidnapping a male in his late teens were hanged in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah.

the UN General Assembly passed a resolution expressing "serious concern" about human rights violations in Iran, including the use of torture and public executions, and called on Tehran to end the abuses.

Do Cong Toan, a hired assassin, was executed in Vietnam by a Ho Chi Minh city firing squad for the slashing to death Dang Vu Thang, the deputy chief of the HCM city zoo’s accounting department, in August 2001.

the presentation of the Spanish edition of Hands Off Cain’s 2005 report – The Death Penalty Worldwide took place in Mexico City.

King Mohammed of Morocco pardoned or reduced the prison sentences of 10,000 people to mark the 50th anniversary of independence, Justice Ministry officials said.

Singapore will hang 25-year-old Australian drug smuggler Nguyen Tuong Van on December 2, despite numerous pleas by Canberra for clemency, his Australian lawyer Lex Lasry said.