there will be 111 death-row inmates in the nation as of the end of the year, a record high

Cuba's Supreme Tribunal commuted the death sentence of an anti-Castro activist who was the last death row inmate on the island, a rights group said. The tribunal was ruling on the appeal of Humberto Eladio Real, who had been convicted in the 1990s on murder and "acts against state security."

According to the reports from Iran two political prisoners were hanged

According to the news from Iran, seven prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian towns early on the Christmas day.

Saudi Arabia beheaded Bangladeshi national Kirun Abdelghani in Jeddah

Judge Abdullah Abu Hashem of the Egyptian state security court commuted

today, the Chamber of Deputies approved the motion presented by Radical parliamentarian

The United Nations General Assembly approved a new resolution in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty. It is the third time after the historic resolution approved in December 2007 and then again in December 2008.

"We take satisfaction in the commitment by minister Franco Frattini to stop the Pe

the Italian heads of American company Hospira have made themselves widely available to collaborate with Italian authorities, accepting that the production and sale of Pentotal will be exclusively authorised for medical purposes.

A Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a fellow citizen was beheaded

A draft amendment to China's Criminal Law remained unchanged in reducing