a Pakistani court sentenced Asia Bibi, 37, a farm laborer from Ittanwali, Punjab

the Hands Off Cain and Radical Party delegation in Mali, comprising Marco Pannella

"We hope to be able to abolish the death penalty in Morocco with an ad hoc law", Moroccan

the Hands Off Cain and Radical Party mission in Mali is continuing. Its objectives are to accelerate the parliamentary procedures for the definitive abolition of the death penalty in the country and to gain Mali's support for two important resolutions in discussion at the United Nations- the Universal Moratorium on capital punishment and the banning of female genital mutilation.

in Japan, Presiding Judge Akira Kanaya of the Tokyo High Court upheld a decision by

Tajikistan is a "few steps away" from abolishing capital punishment as a moratorium

According to the reports from Iran five prisoners were hanged in the prison of Gonbad

Iraqi president Jalal Talabani spoke out against the fact that his country uses the death

senator Sergio De Gregorio, President of the Italian Delegation for the NATO Parliamentary

a bus driver who had been sentenced to hang for killing his step-daughter was

a court in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has sentenced a man from Beit Lahiya to death by hanging

Lebanese man Gerges Elias Farah was sentenced to death by Permanent Military