the Hands Off Cain 2011 Report, presented today, contains the most important facts regarding the practice of the death penalty in 2010 and the first six months of 2011.

Mohammad Mandazahi, son of Dadkha, was hanged in Kerman’s central prison, Iran.

Hands Off Cain is an international association that, together with the Radical Party, is conducting a campaign for a moratorium on capital punishment. It is with pleasure that we invite you to the presentation of our 2011 Report “The Death Penalty Worldwide”. The presentation will be held on August 4 at 11.30am, at our headquarters in Rome, at 76 Via di Torre Argentina (third floor). In attendance will be Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Taïeb Baccouche, Education Minister and spokesperson of the Transitional Tunisian Government.

Japanese Justice Minister Satsuki Eda indicated his intention not to authorize the execution of death row

a 58-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for drug

In Japan a high court upheld a lower court ruling that handed the death penalty to a man over

four friends were sentenced to death by Judicial Commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab of the

a man was sentenced to death in south China's Guangdong Province for forging

the Ministry of Interior in Gaza executed by hanging M.A.Q, 60, and R.A.Q, 29, who were sentenced to death by a civilian court on 29 November 2004 after they had been convicted of collaboration with foreign security bodies and murder.

the military court of Somalia's interim federal government sentenced to death a soldier

Barrister Zafarullah Khan of Watan Party, filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan

A Saudi man convicted of the murder of a soldier was beheaded in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, the