Islamist rebels publicly stoned a woman to death and flogged a man 100 times for alleged adultery in southern Somalia.

Three people, among them one woman, were hanged in the prison of Isfahan (Central Iran) early this

five inmates waiting to be hanged for more than 20 years were released by Luzira Prison authorities

in Taif, Saudi Arabia, Saad Al-Hathli was executed for kidnapping and raping two schoolboys at a remote area outside the

Iran hanged two men convicted of rape and murder in the prison of Hamedan, western part of Iran, the

the Algerian Criminal Court sentenced to 49 al-Qaida of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) members to death,

in Zambia, Lusaka High Court Judge Tamula Kakusa sentenced six men to death for the armed aggravated

One man was hanged in a public square in the northern Iranian city of Qaemshahr in the Caspian Sea Mazandaran province, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan.

two wrongly condemned death row inmates were granted state compensation in China after they were

the Kuwaiti Criminal Court sentenced an Egyptian man, identified only as Ismail M., to death for murdering

regarding the execution in the United States of John Allen Muhammad, better known as the 'Washington Sniper', Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D'Elia told ADNKRONOS: “the execution carried out today in Virginia doesn’t halt the decrease of both the death penalty and executions in the US in the last few years. Furthermore, the number of detainees on death row is down.”

military judges in Lebanon issued death sentences to four people found guilty of collaborating with Israel.