A High Court presided over by Justice Bello Tukur Gummi in Gusau, Zamfara State (Nigeria), has
According to the Iranian state broadcasting, two prisoners were hanged in the central prison
Texas executed Kimberly McCarthy, 52, Black, its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982.
three men were executed in south China's Hainan Province for trafficking methamphetamine,
Brian Darrell Davis, 38, Black, was executed in Oklahoma. Davis was convicted of raping and stabbing to death his girlfriend's mother, 52-year-old Josephine Sanford, in November 2001.
two men, Yang Jiande and Yuan Tingchang, were executed in east China's Fujian Province for trafficking
just two days before they were to go under the executioner’s blade in Kuwait City’s central
the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and
In Maldives, Parliament threw out the bill proposing to enforce the death penalty by hanging
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) of Iraq sentenced two al-Qaeda members to death
Saudi Arabia beheaded two Pakistani men convicted of armed robbery, the interior
A man who went on a killing spree across three provinces with a friend last year received
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
