Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on

Six prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian prisons, reported the Iranian state media.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Nigeria, granted pardon to 10 prisoners, including

Marshall Lee Gore, 50, White, was executed in Florida.

Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal sentenced a senior opposition leader and lawmaker to death in the seventh such verdict by the body set up to probe abuses during the country's bloody struggle for independence.

Saudi Arabia, on the request of Pakistan embassy, has suspended the capital punishment

The high court of north China's Hebei Province upheld the death sentence on murder

According to reports three prisoners were hanged last week in Orumieh Prison. The three

A prisoner was hanged in the Gohardasht Prison, in the city of Karaj, at the same day that the

The Ho Chi Minh City City People's Court sentenced three members of a drug trafficking ring to death.

Three former revolutionaries were sentenced to be hanged by a Tripoli court for the murder

According to reliable sources in Iran six prisoners were hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison