Judge Abdullah Abu Hashem of the Egyptian state security court commuted

today, the Chamber of Deputies approved the motion presented by Radical parliamentarian

The United Nations General Assembly approved a new resolution in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty. It is the third time after the historic resolution approved in December 2007 and then again in December 2008.

"We take satisfaction in the commitment by minister Franco Frattini to stop the Pe

the Italian heads of American company Hospira have made themselves widely available to collaborate with Italian authorities, accepting that the production and sale of Pentotal will be exclusively authorised for medical purposes.

A Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a fellow citizen was beheaded

A draft amendment to China's Criminal Law remained unchanged in reducing

twelve people were hanged in Iran, in two different cases.

More than 1,800 people called for the abolition of the death penalty

Iraq has executed 257 people, including six women, since 2005, deputy justice minister Busho

A US state executed a convicted murderer with an animal drug for the first time because of an anesthetic shortage.

Justice Joseph Enwa Ikpala of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul, The