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
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
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
