A hard-line group of Asian countries are defying the global trend against the death penalty
Saad Yusef al-Muttalibi, adviser to the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al Maliki, has told CNN that Saddam Hussein's former deputy, the Christian Tareq Aziz, will be executed in 2012 "after the withdrawal of USA troops".
The illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol in the western Indian state of Gujarat
The California Department of Justice today released the annual "Homicide
a Cairo court handed down a second death sentence to a fugitive Egyptian police officer
Federal Judge who overturned inmate's death sentence orders his return to death
a tribunal held in a court in Sudan's Sinnar State sentenced 19 people allegedly
a Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, 40, to death
Two Indians, who were facing death sentence in the UAE, are set to be released this
Iraqi Ministry of Justice announced that 6 detainees, convicted with terrorism charges
the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences issued in Saudi Arabia by
The Council of Europe urged Belarus not to execute two men found guilty of carrying out
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
