Pakistan's new government ended the moratorium on executions, an official said.
Attorney General Chris Koster again today called on the Missouri Supreme Court to set execution
The International Committee Against Stoning received information from Tabriz prison that two people had been sentenced to death by stoning.
A Syrian Roman Catholic priest, Father Francois Murad, was killed on June 23 in northern Syria
A Filipina sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China was executed by lethal injection, the
A Chinese court overturned the death sentences of four men for robbing and killing two taxi
Nigeria has said it will not alter its position on the death penalty, which is allowed in
Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court of Nigeria said that capital punishment should
A total of 38 percent Russians support the resumption of death penalties in the
Four prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian cities.
In Zambia, the Ndola High Court has sentenced to death a 23-year-old fisherman of Mwense
five people were hanged in Iran for several crimes.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
