A Yemeni killer who had been on the death row in Saudi Arabia for six years will soon

Japan has hanged a child killer and two other convicted murderers, its first executions since a conservative government swept to power in landslide elections in December.

One prisoner was hanged publicly in Arak (central Iran). According to the official website

A federal appeals court halted the execution of a Georgia man who killed a fellow prisoner in 1990, granting a last-minute stay to the inmate who defense attorneys argued was mentally disabled.

Eight prisoners were hanged in Shiraz’s Adelabad Prison early this morning. According to

In Guyana, a Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice tractor operator who was on trial at the High Court

An unemployed man has been sentenced to death by a High Court in Malaysia which found

Following the mission accomplished by Hands Off Cain and the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty in Zimbabwe last summer, the Human Rights Commission of the Senate passed with 16 votes in favor and 15 against, the motion for the abolition of the death penalty presented by Sen. M. Marava.

Libyan officials said they arrested four foreigners on suspicion of dispensing Christian

Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia claimed that they have executed a Kenyan soldier after

In Japan, an Okayama district court sentenced 30-year old Koichi Sumida to death for killing a 27

14 people have been hanged in Iran in the last days.