In Egypt, Menya's Criminal Court has decided to sentence low-ranking policeman
March 12, 2012: Iran executed some 670 people last year, most of them for drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law and more than 20 for offences against Islam, a United Nations investigator said.
It's a myth that Tasers are less than lethal weapons: Amnesty International recently
A 25-year-old Saudi prisoner who was on death row at the general prison in the southern
A court in West Bengal, India, awarded death sentence to a man convicted of rape and
A Moroccan court rejected appeals from two men convicted over the bombing of a cafe
Three Taiwanese drug traffickers who were given the death penalty by the Xiamen
a draft amendment to the nation's Criminal Procedure Law was submitted to the ongoing 5th session
Robert Charles Towery, 47, white, was executed in Arizona
In Zambia, a Mufumbwe farmer has been sentenced to death for hacking
An apostate Saudi journalist who is believed to be facing execution for insulting Prophet
Three Thai nationals and a Malaysian man were sentenced to death by the High Court
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
