one man was hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison early this morning.

seven men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison early this morning. According to the Iranian news agency Aftab, the seven men were convicted of drug trafficking.

the Illinois Senate, by a vote of 32-25, joined the House in voting to repeal the state’s death penalty and re-allocate funds in the Capital Litigation Trust Fund to a fund for murder victims’ services and law enforcement.

SPA news agency carried a Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry statement

Malaysian High Court Judge Datuk Mohd Yazid Mustafa sentenced M. Nagarajan

Illinois House voted to abolish the death penalty. Late Thursday afternoon, the House

“We appeal to your sense of humanity and ask for a moratorium on the six and a half year sentence of ex Illinois Governor George Ryan, half of which he has already served, so that he can be at the bedside of his dying wife Lura,” the Hands Off Cain directors Marco Pannella, Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti wrote to Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

Four men were hanged in the prison of central Iranian city of Isfahan, early today

Two men were hanged in Boroujerd, west of Iran, early this morning.

A convicted drug trafficker, identified only by his initials A.A., was executed

A 27-year-old Indian was sentenced to death by a Malaysian court on charges

Iran hanged in public a man convicted of committing a sensational daylight murder in a Tehran neighbourhood in October, state news agency IRNA reported.