Hands Off Cain Secretary and Radical Party board member, Sergio D’Elia, warned about the dangerous consequences of Minister Roberto Calderoli’s proposal to offer a reward for the Italian Unabomber and to sentence him to death if caught.

Italy’s Interior Minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, put out an extradition order on Moroccan national Mohamed Daki, acquitted of taking part in international terrorism a week previously by a Milan tribunal. The presence of the Moroccan national in Italy constitutes for the Minister a “serious threat to public order and a danger to state security”.

the Nagoya High Court, Japan, decided to allow a retrial for Masaru Okunishi, who had been on the death row since 1972 when he was convicted of murdering five women in a wine poisoning case in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, in 1961, citing new evidence that could prove his innocence.

Jordan executed a Palestinian, a Jordanian and an Iraqi convicted of killing a jeweler during a robbery, a security official said.

Jordan's state security court upheld death sentences against Abu Hoshar and Osama Sammar, two Islamist militants convicted of plotting attacks against Jewish and Western tourists during millennium celebrations.

the Kenyan government planned to commute death sentences to life in prison, Kiraitu Murungi, the country's justice and constitutional affairs minister, announced.

Kuwait’s public prosecutor demanded the death penalty for 34 of 37 militants suspected of links to Al Qaeda and deadly clashes with police in January 2005.

nine Libyan policemen and a physician were cleared of torturing five Bulgarian nurses to force them to confess to deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.

Trajan Markovski, the lawyer of five Bulgarian nurses facing the death penalty in Libya for allegedly giving children AIDS-tainted blood, vowed to have their sentences overturned even though Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi called them "murderers". "Despite all recent goings on, I insist that the sentences will be repealed," Markovski, said.

it was reported that Malaysia’s hangmen and floggers had won pay rises. For every hanging, executioners would be paid the equivalent of 100 EU (490 Malaysian Ringgits), up from 60 EU.

the Federal Court of Malaysia in Bernama upheld the conviction and death sentence imposed on Francis Antonysamy for murdering a Bangladeshi man in oil palm estate in Temerloh. Francis, 33, had been sentenced to death by the Temerloh High Court for murdering Ali Ahmmed Mohammed Ullah at the Kim Swee Leong oil palm plantation near Kuala Lumpur on August 19, 1994.

a court in Mali condemned five people to death and dozens to prison for their part in a religious clash that killed 10 people.