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

In India, a 55-year-old man was given a death sentence by Keonjhar district session judge Guruprasad Sahu for killing three members of a family in 2009, public prosecutor Gopal Parida said.

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