King Mswati III's Swaziland government is in search of a hangman so prisoners presently on death row
In Malaysia, a Nigerian man was sentenced to death by hanging by the High Court today after
An Indonesian court sentenced a British woman to death for attempting to smuggle drugs into the resort island of Bali.
An Algerian court sentenced to death the fugitive head of Al-Qaeda's North Africa
Bangladesh will drop plans to impose the death penalty for counterfeiting, a central bank
Six men have been executed in public in Iran in the last days.
A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced a former leader of the country’s largest Islamic
Decks have finally been cleared in United Arab Emirates for the release of 17 Indians
Six Death Row inmates had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment in Guyana. The
Somali militants linked to al-Qaeda said today they had executed a French agent who French
The Death Penalty Information Center offers a new resource page on death sentences
Six prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian prisons, reported the official Iranian
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
