Li Hao, 35, a former government employee of central China, was sentenced to death after being convicted
21 prisoners have been hanged in Iran in the last days.
In India, the Allahabad High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment, awarded
Authorities in Saudi Arabia’s western Makah province beheaded a man convicted of murder, the
China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death sentence for "especially
Five prisoners were hanged in the prison of Qazvin (west of Tehran) early this morning, reported the official Iranian media.
Three drug dealers got the death penalty and two others from the same ring were sentenced
According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars six prisoners who were not identified by name,
Two Yemenis condemned to death for forming an armed gang and for robbery were executed
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, has requested President Goodluck
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan was released in the morning from home confinement
a woman received a lethal injection for lacing milk with nitrite, which killed three children and
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
