in Iran, Majid Jamali-Fashi was sentenced to death for murdering scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010 on behalf of Israel to stop Iran developing nuclear technology, official news agency IRNA reported.

a Sudanese court handed a death sentence to a leader of the Justice and Equality

subcontractor Chong Soon Wah, 38, was re-sentenced to death by presiding Justice Azhar

former OIC Angulana Police Station Inspector D. Newton, Police Constables G. I. Kumarasiri

Datuk Wira Low Bop Bing, Datuk Clement Allan Skinner and Justice Sangau Gunting of

according to the official Xinhua News Agency, China executed truck driver

in Kericho, Kenya, Chief Magistrate Hedwig Ong'undi sentenced Isaac Kipng'etich Bett, Jackson

Justice Datuk Zakiah Kassim of the Malaysian High Court sentenced Indonesian national Effendi, 25, and

in Nigeria, Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema commuted the death sentence passed on eight prisoners

two unidentified government soldiers were executed in Mogadishu, Somalia

Benin took an important step towards abolishing the death penalty after the country’s National Assembly voted in favour of ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which calls for the death penalty to be abolished.