three prisoners were executed at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison, the website of the General Directorate of Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures in Tehran reported.

Judge Jeffrey Sherlock Prohibits State From Using Execution Drug. A state judge ruled today that the

According to an autopsy report obtained by The Oklahoman, the state used the wrong drug to stop an

The World Day Against the Death Penalty, which will occur on October 10, was celebrated today in Rome with a press conference promoted by Iran Human Rights, Amnesty International, Hands off Cain and the Community of Sant’Egidio.

“Executions for drug crimes amount to a violation of international law and are unlawful killings,” the United

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.