two Saudi men were beheaded after being convicted over two separate cases of murder, the interior ministry said.
in the United Arab Emirates, the Supreme Court confirmed the death penalty of a man who
Sierra Leone feted its 50th anniversary of independence from Britain with a colourful parade and government pardon of 96 prisoners, five of whom were on death row.
a judge in Ajman, the United Arab Emirates, ordered the release of three brothers who
One man was hanged in the prison of kermanshah west of Iran, reported the official Iranian
a court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sentenced Nigerian man Nnaji David Ete, 33, to
construction worker Zulkifli Sakun Ahmad Edin Chun, 33, from Kodiang, was sentenced
the government of Saudi Arabia has stayed death sentence of three persons belonging
Iraq's High Criminal Court sentenced to death three Saddam Hussein-era spies convicted of assassinating the father of a sitting Iraqi lawmaker in Beirut in April 1994.
Four people were hanged in public in the city of Bandar Abbas, south of Iran, this morning.
two cousins have been sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for trafficking
Gov. Mary Fallin has signed into law legislation that will give prison officials more
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
