Yemeni lawyers have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says.

a young man was hanged in public in the western city of Qazvin.

California's highest court overturned the death penalty for Gregory Sturm, convicted of murder, saying that a judge made remarks that could have prejudiced the jury that condemned him to death.

an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in southwestern Khuzestan province.

a Pakistani court sentenced to death Atta-ur Rahman, the chief of the Jundullah organization, and his deputy Shahzad Bajwa after convicting them of shooting and throwing a grenade at a military pickup truck in the southern city of Karachi in March 2004, killing a soldier and a bystander, prosecutor Maula Bakhsh Bhatti said.

lawyers for the US government demanded the death penalty in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui who they said could have chosen to prevent the September 11 attacks.

the Sialkot Additional District and Session Court, Pakistan, sentenced to death on counts, with a fine of 300,000 rupees each, Ali Raza alias Muna and Moazzam Shehzad after convicting them of double murder.

Hossein S., 24, was hanged in Qazvin, northern Iran, for raping two women after breaking into a beauty parlour and threatening them with a knife.

Ali Salahshoor, 33, was hanged publicly on Sunday morning for murdering two brothers in 2005 in Ziar, a village in the central Isfahan province.

Turkey ratifies Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances.

Courts in China's southern province of Guangdong will introduce harsher penalties, including death, to deter motorcycle-riding purse snatchers who sometimes chop off the hands of victims who resist, the Yangcheng Evening News said.

two men convicted of hacking to death a family of three, including a 4-year-old boy, were sentenced to death and executed in China’s Yunnan Province.