Minister of Interior Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said Iran is against abolishing the death penalty for drugs smugglers, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

the Constitution Review and Implementation Committee (CRIC) submitted a draft bill for the amendment of entrenched provisions in the 1992 Constitution to the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Chairman of the CRIC, Professor Emmanuel Victor Oware Dankwa, said in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra.

one prisoner was hanged in the prison of Semnan early in the morning, the official website of the Iranian

The Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction of an attorney-at-law for the murder of his wife and the

Eight key activists have launched the Step by Step to Stop Death Penalty campaign, demanding an end to

A court in the Central Highlands gave the death sentence to a Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) executive

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.