A Comorian driver who smothered an elderly female benefactor during a fierce theft attempt ten years ago was sentenced to death in Dubai.
India hanged a man who had been convicted of involvement in a 2001 attack on Parliament that killed nine people.
Two men were sentenced to death in Pakistan, in two separate cases. In the first case, District
In Zimbabwe, MDC-T senators proposed that convicted murderers be quarantined instead of
The Supreme Court on India decided on the death sentence for a man convicted of
In Zambia, delegates to the Luapula Province constitution convention adopted Article 28 (3) which
Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Isfahan, reported
A local court in Badaun, India, pronounced death sentence to a man in a year-old rape
A lower court in Mandla, India, awarded death sentence to a 32-year-old man for raping and
The Supreme Court of Taiwan commuted the death sentence of a convicted murderer
Saudi authorities beheaded a man some thirty years after he was convicted of murder, after his victim's youngest son came of age and agreed to the punishment.
A Court of Appeal in Lagos affirmed the death sentence slammed on the General-Overseer
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
