Several important changes to China's laws came into effect today, addressing such things
One man was hanged in public in the Markazi (central)
A Bahraini military court sentenced four men to death for killing two police officers during
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.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours