Ohio Governor Ted Strickland granted clemency to Kevin Keith, 46, commuting his
two of three Singaporeans found guilty of killing a lorry driver during a May 2006 robbery attempt
an Iranian widow sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has been lashed 99 times for ''spreading corruption and indecency'' after a newspaper published an alleged picture of her without a headscarf, her son said.
China has taken a new move to prevent wrongful convictions in death sentence
According to unofficial reports from several sources in Iran several hundred prisoners
three judges of the Ugandan Court of Appeal, led by Justice George Engwau, upheld
Niger has a “historic opportunity” to abolish the death penalty in a new constitution that will be voted
five people were hanged in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz early in the morning, reported the state run Iranian news agency FARS.
A nationwide shortage of several anesthesia drugs has left several states scrambling to
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on August 28 that she was to be hanged at dawn the day after, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.
in Afghanistan's western Nimroz Province, the Taliban beheaded an unidentifed man...
in the United Arab Emirates, Afghan national MK, 22, was sentenced to death
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
