Iran’s Prosecutor General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said the payment of "blood money" spared 358
an Egyptian court in Minya condemned the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 of his supporters to
detailed regulations on the implementation of the death sentence came into force following their publication
an Islamic court in Kano State sentenced a man to be stoned to death for raping a 12-year-old student,
five death-row inmates were executed in various parts of the island, the Justice Ministry said.
the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva voiced concern over moves to revive the death penalty in the
a death row inmate in Oklahoma died of a heart attack after spending 43 minutes writhing in agony on a stretcher because of a botched execution that one lawyer has described as "torture".
the Court of First Instance in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, presided by Judge Mahmoud Barakah, sentenced B.
Robert Hendrix, 47, White, was executed in Florida.
two prisoners were hanged in Iran early this morning.
Lower House endorsed the draft anti-terrorism law, maintaining the death penalty for certain crimes tagged
Missouri executed a convicted killer after the
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
