Edwin J. Peterson, who served as the Chief Justice of Oregon's Supreme Court for many years, recently recommended ending the “Dickensonian system we have in Oregon”.
Robert Glen Jones, 43, White, was executed in Arizona.
According to reports from Iran, Alireza M, the 37 year old man who survived a hanging
The Sultan of Brunei has announced tough new Islamic punishments as part of a new sharia penal
A 38-year old man was sentenced to death by a court in India for murdering an NRI (non-resident
In Belarus, the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court considered today an appeal filed
In Sri Lanka, the appeal against the conviction of death sentence on Shramantha Jayamaha
The Criminal Court of Appeals overturned the verdict of a lower court that sentenced an expatriate
The Asian Centre for Human Right (ACHR) in its report, “Mercy on Trial in India” stated that India had a total of 414 death row convicts at the end of 2012.
In Nigeria, Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole signed into law the “Kidnapping Prohibition
Botswana’s Government has maintained that the overturned five death sentences this year
A court in Bihar, India, awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a minor
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
