There is potential for abolishing the death penalty among the newly democratized southern Mediterranean
Two death-row inmates were hanged in Tokyo and Osaka, in the second round of executions
Iran complained to Saudi government for ignoring Judicial Accord it signed with the Islamic
Three members of an Iranian family were saved from the gallows when the High Court
An appeals court in Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam upheld the death
In Uttar Predesh (India) a court sentenced seven persons to gallows for killing a
A man who swallowed 103 capsules of heroin so he could smuggle the drug into the UAE faces execution
In Zimbabwe, a convicted murderer had his death sentence quashed by the Supreme Court
Islamists in northern Mali stoned an unmarried couple to death, the first reported sharia
A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran's biggest-ever banking
In Thailand, the Criminal Court handed down the death sentence for three former
A Saudi man sentenced to death for murdering another Saudi during a fight was saved from
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
