the Japanese Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that sentenced a 47 year
the United Nations expert on the independence of judges and lawyers condemned the
a Bangladeshi murderer was executed by firing squad in Bahrain early in the morning, the Public Prosecution
Vietnam's head of state, Nguyen Minh Triet, explained his personal efforts to reduce
two recently discovered mass graves and a still-secret list of five other places where
capital punishment may soon be expunged from Nigeria's statutes book if members
an Algerian criminal court sentenced 14 people to death in absentia for a series of
the State Specialized Appeals Court in Yemen approved the death penalty against the
Afghanistan's appeal court referred a reporter sentenced to death on blasphemy charges
the Mullahs' regime in Iran is set to execute scholar on the history of Iran and Islam, Dr
the autonomous northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan's justice minister, Faruq Jamil, told campaign
Tahar Boumedra, the Penal Reform International (PRI) Regional Director for the
