The mullahs hanged four men in northern and southern Iran.

Juan Martin Garcia, 35, hispanic, was executed for the September 17, 1998 killing and robbery of Hugo Solano, 36, in Houston.

Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged a prisoner in southern Iran and transferred at least nine other death-row

Sri Lanka will not implement the death penalty temporarily as the country has decided to vote in favor of a UN resolution for moratorium on death penalty in 2015, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said in parliament.

A second juvenile is facing beheading in Saudi Arabia after a court upheld his conviction for a role in

The Supreme Court is starting a new term. The 9 justices are meeting in public Monday for the first hearing

Death row convict Muhammad Idrees was sent to the gallows at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore for killing a man in 1997.

Two were sentenced to death, two others to life in prison and a minor to a 10-year jail term for sabotage.

Masaru Okunishi, a death-row inmate who was seeking a retrial over a 1961 wine poisoning case, died at the Hachioji medical prison in western Tokyo. He was 89.

A triple murder convict named Muhammad Akram was executed in the Sahiwal Central Jail. He had killed his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law over a domestic feud in 2002.

Gov. Jay Nixon commuted the death sentence of Kimber Edwards to life without parole.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals halted 3 executions.