an Iranian man convicted of murder and armed robberies was hanged in public in the southern city of Shiraz, the official news agency IRNA reported.

the state of Indiana executed a former drug dealer convicted of killing a young couple in 1983. Marvin Bieghler, 58, died at 2:17 a.m. EST (0717 GMT) following an injection of lethal chemicals at the Indiana State Prison, officials said.

two former Heilongjiang government officials linked to the bribes-for-jobs case were sentenced to death in Harbin, China.

an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in Isfahan, the Iran newspaper reported.

Marion Dudley, a man convicted of killing four people in Houston 14 years ago was put to death by lethal injection, hours after the Supreme Court rejected a request to spare him.

the US Supreme Court has blocked the execution of Clarence Hill to consider his appeal over the method used to carry out the punishment.

ten inmates in France’s Clairvaux prison, one of the harshest prisons in the country, asked for “the reintroduction of the death penalty” for themselves in a letter sent to the France Presse.

a death row prisoner in Taiwan committed suicide due to being unable to bear the pain of waiting for the execution.

state lawmakers blocked a bill that would bar the state from carrying out death sentences for two years.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered Philippine diplomats to do everything they could to save a Filipina teacher who was set to hang in Kuwait for killing her boss there.

the US Army has issued new regulations governing the death penalty, raising speculation that the military might be preparing for its first execution since 1961.

Perrie Dyon Simpson was executed early morning for the 1984 murder of a retired minister, the North Carolina Department of Correction said.