Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld sentences for two young men to be hanged in the Iranian capital Tehran, a state-run daily reported.

at 12:01 a.m., having exhausted all appeals, Stanley Tookie Williams shuffled into San Quentin's death chamber, shackled at the wrists and waist and escorted by four guards.

John B. Nixon Sr., a 77-year-old convicted hitman, was executed becoming the oldest person in the nation put to death since capital punishment resumed in the US in 1977.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he "strongly" opposed the death penalty but warned it was wrong to equate the human rights situtation in the US with that in countries such as China simply on the grounds of the number of executions carried out.

“Iran has executed at least eight juvenile offenders so far this year, two of whom were still under 18 at the time they were executed”, Amnesty International said in a statement.

Stanley Williams was executed after being denied clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

the Federal High Court sentenced to death Major Melaku Tefera, one of Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's top soldiers, for genocide during the country's 1970s "Red Terror" campaign.

California prison officials executed Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, the ex-leader of the Crips convicted of killing four people in 1979, early in the morning a day after top courts and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected final appeals to spare his life.

the state Supreme Court late Sunday refused to grant a stay of execution for Stanley Tookie Williams.

a young man was hanged in the Iranian capital Tehran, the state-run news agency ISNA reported.

a young Iranian woman was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan.

Iran publicly hanged Rostam Tajik, an Afghan national, for a crime he was alleged to have committed as a minor.