Burundi's parliament overwhelmingly agreed to abolish the death penalty, but homosexuals
a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of murdering
Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, a judiciary spokesman said. Al
Two former officials from China's Hunan Province were sentenced to death for taking bribes.
A U.S. soldier convicted of rape and murder two decades ago will be executed December 10 in the
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia rescinded the death penalty against a Turkish barber convicted of "cursin
a Malaysian court sentenced two Indonesians, Mohamad Idris and Jainuddin, to death
a court in Sanaa, Yemen, sentenced an Iranian to death for drug tra
the Indonesian Attorney General Office, which recorded 92 prisoners, 32 of them foreigners
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua pardoned a man who spent more than two decades on death row for
slamming the Madhya Pradesh Government for shoddy prosecution, the Indian Supreme Court acquitted
a dozen al-Qaida agents have been sentenced to be executed in Algeria after the trial of more than 100
