A former Chinese tycoon who was convicted of illegally raising money for her business has been sentenced
Two prisoners were publicly hanged in Isfahan (central Iran) early in the morning.
A court in the Sudanese capital Khartoum sentenced an unidentified woman to be executed
Missouri finds a drug option for executions: Propofol. The Missouri Department of Corrections
Syrian authorities have sentenced to death for "treason" an activist who was arrested in April
Saudi authorities beheaded two Pakistanis in Makkah finding them guilty of two murders, the interior ministry said.
According to the official and unofficial reports 26 prisoners were executed in three different Iranian prisons in two days.
In Somaliland, a military tribunal in Hargeisa has convicted and sentenced 17 civilians to death
In Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari issued a stay order for the execution of Behram Khan, a
A Malaysian court sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people
A Mauritanian court upheld a death sentence handed to an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
an Egyptian court in Minya sentenced a Muslim man to death for the killing and wounding
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
