the Shoura Council has made a major decision toward reducing instances of capital punishment

According to Iranian state media, five prisoners were hanged in two different Iranian cities.

In Nigeria, a Lagos High Court Judge, Justice Mufutau Olokoba, has nullified

In Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has granted clemency to Deni Setia Maharwa

A Saudi court has upheld the death sentence of a woman who tortured her seven

Iraqi authorities carried out six more death sentences, bringing to 23 the number of people executed

A total 930 death row prisoners were in jails in Malaysia as of Aug 31, their cases pending

Four prisoners were hanged in the prison of Tabriz (northwestern Iran) in the

Jonathan Green, 44, black, was put to death in Texas.

during a ceremony at the Palace State House in Freetown in Sierra Leone, the seat of the Presidency of the Republic, a delegation of Hands Off Cain and the Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT), composed of the Secretary of HOC, Sergio D'Elia, the co-vice President of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Senator Marco Perduca, and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Treasurer of HOC, presented the Award "Abolitionist of the Year 2012" to President Ernest Bai Koroma, because a year ago he emptied death row, commuted all death sentences, and has engaged in international fora to abolish the death penalty.

In Malaysia, the High Court sentenced two Customs preventive officers to death by hanging

Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam without a doubt would get a death sentence