Iran hanged 21 convicted drug smugglers and other criminals, Iranian media said, the latest of a

Iraq's top court said it has confirmed the death sentence on "Chemical Ali" and two other cohorts of

The unexpectedly violent tone of Nigrizia's statements shock us more than the content. This is not language that a man of the church should use.

the Somali armed forces executed a government soldier at Somalia's former execution field in the army academy "Scool Polizia", along the coast of Mogadishu.

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi national convicted of fatally shooting his stepmother while he was still a minor. The execution took place in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

the Capital City Court in Mongolia upheld a lower court’s decision to sentence Ts.Tumengerel to death for the murder of D.Badraa in June 2006.

Malta is willing to sign the moratorium proposal of the death penalty.

Japan carried out three hangings, the most executions in a single day in 31 years, as it struggles to reduce a growing death row population.

Iran hanged three men in public for raping a woman, the official media reported.

Adi bin Asnawi, an Indonesian worker from West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province, was acquitted by the Seremban High Court in Negeri Sembilan State, West Malaysia.

Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso granted general pardons on the occasion of Congo's National Day

Hands Off Cain awarded the Rwandan President Paul Kagame with the "The Abolitionist of the Year 2007" Award for scrapping capital punishment from the criminal laws of the country, RNA reports. The prize was awarded through Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.