Judge Datuk Zamani A. Rahim of the Malaysian High Court sentenced salesman Raja Saiful Nizam Raja

Indian President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 75- year- old Shobhit

A senior Malaysian minister reportedly urged the government to abolish the death

Jamaican Supreme Court Justice Horace March sentenced ex-soldier Leslie Moodie

The Tokyo Detention House opened its execution chamber to the media, giving the public its first peek at the place where death-row inmates are hanged.

three men have been sentenced to death in Gambia, in two different cases

Iran publicly hanged three men in the western city of Azna, in the province of Lorestan.

four military and government officials in Equatorial Guinea were executed for their

Iran hanged Akbar Z., 33, and Hamidreza H., 28, and Afghanistan national Shah S., 38, in a

Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the central city of Isfahan, Iran, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported. Behnam J., 22, was found guilty of possessing 1.6 kgs of heroin, and Shahram A., arrested with 166 grams of heroin

the 2010 Report on the death penalty worldwide, edited by Elisabetta Zamparutti, was presented by Hands Off Cain at their headquarters in Rome. Attending the press conference was the President of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping. Mr Ping was awarded the “2010 Abolitionist of the Year” award, given by Hands Off Cain in recognition of the person who above all others was committed to the moratorium on capital punishment and the abolition of the death penalty.

the 2010 report, published by Reality Book and again edited by Elisabetta Zamparutti, gives an account of the most important facts relative to the death penalty in 2009 and in the first six months of 2010. The data confirms the positive evolution towards the worldwide abolition of the death penalty.