The Supreme Military Court has ordered the death penalty on a couple of civilians for killing
Executed prisoners were still the main source of organs used in transplant operations
In Taiwan, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed that it has levied administrative
In Singapore, the fate of a drug trafficker who was on death row has taken a second
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.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
