the Law Society has called for the scrapping of the mandatory death penalty in Singapore for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and firearms-related offences.
the Italian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Massimo D'Alema, gave his
discussing the initiative for the UN moratorium on capital punishment, the Italian
Texas executed a man by lethal injection for the 1993 rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl.
a Yemeni court sentenced two Palestinian brothers to death and a third to prison for
three Iranians convicted of kidnapping and then raping a woman
Around 3000 people marched in Rome calling on the government to help speed the adoption of a UN resolution for a world moratorium on death penalty.
a Saudi man convicted of fatally shooting another Saudi over a dispute was beheaded, the Interior Ministry said.
The General Assembly turned back Gov. Tim Kaine's vetoes of three bills that expand
a federal appeals court refused to intervene in the case of a U.S. citizen facing a death
Saudi Arabia executed Majid bin Othman bin Mohammed al-Adani, a Yemeni man
In a unanimous decision, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ruled that a woman forced to have intercourse (zina-bil-jabr) should not be
