the Afghan government executed three men for crimes including murder, the state broadcaster announced.
a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword after he was convicted of deliberately starting a prison
Two men found guilty of kidnapping and murdering a nine-year-old boy on Iran's Gulf island of Kish have
Indonesia executed three Islamic militants for helping plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
Causing death through "cyber terrorism" will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree
the News Agency of Nigeria reported that eighteen Nigerians sentenced to death for drug trafficking in
the Botswanan Government does not intend to change its current stance on the death penalty, the President Lt Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama said
Japanese Justice Minister Eisuke Mori said it is not acceptable to abolish the death penalty. "It is not appropriate to terminate capital punishment," he told a press conference after the Cabinet meeting.
the Ugandan High Court sentenced two men to death for killing another man. Desderio Onyango and
an Army jawan in India facing the death penalty for killing an officer had his death sentenced commuted to
the judicial branch of Isfahan province in Iran announced it had carried out that morning the death sentence of Gholamreza H., an Afghan national convicted of murder.
nine people received the death penalty from two courts in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. According to
