according to “Jordan Times”, three men, convicted of murdering three people in three separate incidents, were executed at dawn at Swaqa correctional and rehabilitation center on June 14.

Monor Miah, 32, was condemned to death by a Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, after being convicted of killing his wife.

Pakistan's top Islamic court, the Federal Shariat Court based in Islamabad, threw out the acquittal of five people convicted of raping a woman on the orders of a tribal village jury.

the Palestinian Authority is set to resume the execution of prisoners on death row, with at least five sentences due to be carried out in March.

the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of the 2004 Annual Report on Human Rights. Simon Coveney MEP EPP-ED presented the report to the Committee as Rapporteur.

a jury in Puerto Rico sentenced two convicted murderers, Hernando Medina Villegas and Lorenzo Catalan Roman, to life imprisonment, rather than ordering them to be executed.

Nico Bavurha, one of the men sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the assassination of Laurent Kabila, died on April 1 at Mama yemo hospital in Kinshasa where he had been transferred following a long period of illness in prison.

two Yemenis were beheaded for killing a Saudi woman after breaking into her home, the Saudi Arabia Interior Ministry said.

South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled that the country's last death row inmates be given new sentences in line with its post-apartheid constitution that outlaws capital punishment.

Saudi Arabia executed three Saudis for killing local officials and security forces in the north of the kingdom, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

Saudi Arabia executed Emad al-Wakil, an Egyptian man, for raping and killing a woman, the country’s interior ministry said.

Saudi Arabia executed a gang of six Somali men convicted of abducting and robbing taxi drivers in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. The six men had lured taxi drivers to a remote spot where they hit them and threatened them with knives before robbing them and taking their cars, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.