the Government formulated the new regulations specifying procedures for enforcing the death penalty.

A person found guilty regarding a murder which had taken place in Shrawasthipura, Anuradhapura in

Iraq executed seven people, including three agents of the ousted Saddam Hussein regime – Hadi Hassuni, Abdul Hassan al-Majid and Farukh Hijazi – who were convicted of the 1994 killing in Beirut of Sheikh Taleb al-Suhail al-Tamimi, the father of a current MP.

An Ado-Ekiti High Court in Ado-Ekiti sentenced three accused persons to death by hanging for robbery,

A 30-year-old Pakistani man in Dubai (UAE) was sentenced to death for trafficking four kilogrammes of

a Sudanese court sentenced seventeen people to death in absentia, including a former Governor who is now a rebel leader, and another insurgent chief, said Al-Tigani Hassan, a lawyer who was present for the verdict in Singa town, the capital of Sennar State.

four United Nations experts on human rights – Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the situation of

Iran executed 331 people for drug-related charges in 2013, a new report published today by the non-profit

The Delhi high court has commuted the death sentence given to five people involved in the murder of a man,

a Yemeni court in Taizz sentenced 16 people to death, including MP Ahmad al-Barati from the General

The Osaka District Court sentenced a 52-year-old man to death for killing two people in two separate

Saudi King Abdullah ordered the execution of all qizas or death penalty cases to be deferred for three