One prisoner was hanged in the central prison of Qom (south of Tehran) early in the morning, reported the Iranain state media.

China has made strides in protecting the human rights of prison inmates in recent years, including

at a Nanyuki court in Kenya, senior principal magistrate Jesse Nyaga sentenced houseboy

Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich today commuted the death sentence of Joseph Murphy

Yemeni national Abdulrazaq Al-Sayed was executed in the southwestern Saudi Arabian city of

Iran's supreme court upheld a sentence of blinding in one eye for a waiter who hurled acid at

President Obama candidly took a little time to explain how he tried to save Troy Davis and why he did not say anything about his controversial execution, two sources told Redding News Review.

Kwok Weng Fatt, 62, Abdul Rahman Lee Abdullah, 54, and Nurul Jannah Seng

according to a statement by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, four

in Kenya, Richard Ongwenyi and Dominic Matatu were sentenced to death by Naivasha

the Intermediate People's Court of Xiangtan, in China's Hunan Province, sentenced Wang Yongzhong, the

Derrick O'Neal Mason, 37, black, has been executed. He was sentenced to die in 1995 after