Algeria, where no executions have taken place since 1993, intends to put an end to capital punishment

Awad al-Bandar a former judge from Saddam Hussein's regime, admitted to sentencing 148 Shiites to death in the 1980s, but maintained they received a fair trial and had confessed to trying to assassinate the former Iraqi leader.

Jordanian authorities executed Adnan Ismail, a man convicted for murdering his wife and seven-month-old son, marking Jordan's third execution in four days.

four cardinal members of a notorious drug ring that was accused of trafficking 21 kilograms of heroin have been sentenced to death at first trial in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

President George W. Bush signed into law a Patriot Act renewal that will allow the government to keep using terror-fighting tools passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

the public organization ‘The Voice of Beslan’ objected to the idea of suspending the death penalty moratorium currently in force in Russia.

The Committee for the Abolition of Capital Punishment of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea (CBCK) has announced that it will present the government with a petition calling for the abolition of capital punishment in the country.

24 members of the Shan State Army South (SSA-S) Brigade – 241, including its commander Sa Khun Kyaw who surrendered to the Burmese army earlier in the year, were sentenced to death by a martial court inside Lashio Prison in the northern Shan State near the Sino-Burmese border.

Jordan executed two Islamist militants convicted of killing a US diplomat in Amman in 2002 in a rare move to implement a death sentence against security detainees.

the mandatory death penalty in the Bahamas was abolished by five British law lords when they held it to be a breach of international human rights.

Iraqi authorities hanged 13 insurgents, marking the first time militants had been executed in the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted, the government said.

Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk planned to send Iranian homosexual asylum-seekers back home after cancelling a six-month reprieve, a letter to parliament revealed.