An Egypt court in Shebeen al-Koum, a prominent village in Menufiya, in the Nile Delta region north of Cairo, handed the death sentence to a man who tortured and killed his wife in 2010.
In Malaysia, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz called
Opponents of capital punishment announced today that they have gathered nearly 800,000 signatures for a November ballot initiative that would repeal the death penalty in California and replace it with life in prison without parole.
Ma'an News Agency reported that a court in the Gaza Strip had refused an appeal
Marlon King, the man charged for the murder of four year old Amy Annamunthudo
A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to death after being convicted of raping and murdering
Robert Henry Moormann, 63, white, was executed in Arizona for killing his adoptive mother
George Rivas, 41, white, was executed in Texas for killing Aubrey Hawkins, 29, white
Holding that the gruesome murders were committed on the spur of the moment due to suspicion
a Saudi man sentenced to death for murder was pardoned by the victim’s father moments before his beheading.
In Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Muhammad
Iran has put off the execution of Christian Pastor Yousof Nadarkhani -- probably in
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
