An additional sessions judge, Chaudhary Ghulam Murtaza, in Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan,
Keith Thurmond, 52, white, was executed in Texas. He had been sentenced to death on Nov. 13, 2002 for the Sept. 25, 2001, murders of his estranged wife Sharon Thurmond, 32, and her boyfriend Guy Fernandes, 35.
The Supreme Military Court has ordered the death penalty on a couple of civilians for killing
Executed prisoners were still the main source of organs used in transplant operations
In Taiwan, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed that it has levied administrative
In Singapore, the fate of a drug trafficker who was on death row has taken a second
In Malaysia An Iranian was sentenced to death by the Shah Alam High Court to
In Nigeria, fifteen years after he was sentenced to death by hanging, Edet Obeten Mbang
In India, the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to a man who raped and
Iran Human Rights (IHR) presented its annual report on the death penalty in 2011 in Iran.
An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the country's Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of an ex-Marine who was sentenced to death for working for the CIA.
In Japan, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a 66-year-old man sentenced to death for robbing and murdering a couple in Saitama Prefecture in February 2007
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
