Justice Minister Hideo Hiraoka stressed the need for a national debate on whether Japan should
Saudi Arabia has decided to triple diya, the money paid by a killer to the victim’s relatives
four ethnic minority men were sentenced to death for the latest spate of violent attacks
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi national convicted of murder and a Syrian accused of drug trafficking in the conservative kingdom's north, the interior ministry announced.
Georgia corrections officials have set an execution date for a high-profile death
the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the court's failure to impose capital punishment for heinous
soldier Chiang Kuo-ching was posthumously acquitted by a Taiwanese military court
ten people have been executed in Iran in the last two days.
seventeen Indians who are on death row in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, for murdering
six people have been hanged recently in Iran for drug trafficking.
in Bangladesh, Dhaka's Speedy Trial Tribunal -4 judge Motahar Hossain sentenced six
a leading member of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's political party, Hussein al-Assadi
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
