Eight people were hanged in the prison of Qom, south of Tehran, state run news

China executed at least nine people for drug-related crimes in the

the Primary Specialized Penal Court in Yemen's Hadramout province

A 19-year-old Uyghur becomes the second woman sentenced to die following ethnic

four men were hanged in Zahedan prison in Sistan-Baluchestan.

the Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court in China sentenced Xu Xiaochun

Malaysian High Court Judge Dr Badariah Sahamid sentenced indonesian woman

Iran sentenced an unidentified man to death for syping for Israel, the semiofficial Mehr

there will be 111 death-row inmates in the nation as of the end of the year, a record high

Cuba's Supreme Tribunal commuted the death sentence of an anti-Castro activist who was the last death row inmate on the island, a rights group said. The tribunal was ruling on the appeal of Humberto Eladio Real, who had been convicted in the 1990s on murder and "acts against state security."

According to the reports from Iran two political prisoners were hanged

According to the news from Iran, seven prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian towns early on the Christmas day.