24 members of the Shan State Army South (SSA-S) Brigade – 241, including its commander Sa Khun Kyaw who surrendered to the Burmese army earlier in the year, were sentenced to death by a martial court inside Lashio Prison in the northern Shan State near the Sino-Burmese border.

Jordan executed two Islamist militants convicted of killing a US diplomat in Amman in 2002 in a rare move to implement a death sentence against security detainees.

the mandatory death penalty in the Bahamas was abolished by five British law lords when they held it to be a breach of international human rights.

Iraqi authorities hanged 13 insurgents, marking the first time militants had been executed in the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted, the government said.

Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk planned to send Iranian homosexual asylum-seekers back home after cancelling a six-month reprieve, a letter to parliament revealed.

Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a stay of execution for three co-defendants on federal death row who were scheduled to be executed in May, the Tribune Star reported.

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.