a Yemeni court sentenced five Yemeni nationals, a Kenyan, a Somalian and a Tanzanian
two men convicted of selling and trafficking 12,242 grams of heroin to Taiwan were executed
in India, eight convicts on death row in two separate cases of murder received
Obeid bin Saif al-Qahtani was beheaded by the sword in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for fatally
The Nigerian government decided to resume the execution of prison inmates to ease prison
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of Billy Joe Magwood, ruling that Magwood can argue that Alabama retroactively changed its laws to make his crime qualify for the death penalty.
top Egyptian Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya leader Abdel Hamid Musa Abu Aqrab was sentenced
in the Bahamas, Justice Neville Adderley sentenced Renaldo Bonaby to death for murder.
six men were executed in southeast China's Fujian Province ahead of the International
a court in Nouakchott, Mauritania, handed down ten death sentences for
fourteen prisoners who received the death sentence in Malaysia were pardoned
in Vietnam, a Ho Chin Minh City court commuted the death sentence handed to property
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
