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.

the Sialkot Additional District and Session Court, Pakistan, sentenced to death on counts, with a fine of 300,000 rupees each, Ali Raza alias Muna and Moazzam Shehzad after convicting them of double murder.

Hossein S., 24, was hanged in Qazvin, northern Iran, for raping two women after breaking into a beauty parlour and threatening them with a knife.

Ali Salahshoor, 33, was hanged publicly on Sunday morning for murdering two brothers in 2005 in Ziar, a village in the central Isfahan province.

Turkey ratifies Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances.

Courts in China's southern province of Guangdong will introduce harsher penalties, including death, to deter motorcycle-riding purse snatchers who sometimes chop off the hands of victims who resist, the Yangcheng Evening News said.

two men convicted of hacking to death a family of three, including a 4-year-old boy, were sentenced to death and executed in China’s Yunnan Province.

the Surabaya Military Court, Indonesia, sentenced to death Navy Colonel M. Irfan Djumroni for murdering his former wife and a religious court judge in a frenzied attack after he lost a court case.

the latest edition of “Death Row Usa”, a quarterly report by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the united States, shows an 8% decline in the country's death row population during the past 5 years, down from 3,652 in 2000 to 3,373 on January 1, 2006.

Saddam Hussein admitted in court that he gave orders that led to the execution of Shi'ite Muslims in the 1980s, but justified the punishment as his right as Iraq's president.

Iran executed three Arab activists in the south-western oil city of Ahwaz, according to local dissidents reached by telephone.