the Hands Off Cain mission for the abolition of the death penalty in Ghana concluded. The mission was also to convince the country to vote favourably for the pro moratorium resolution in discussion at the United Nations.

a Malaysian court sentenced a 41-year-old Indian national to death for drug trafficking.

After the missions in Zambia, Mali and Congo-Brazaville, the Hands Off Cain campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa continues in Ghana.

For the second time this month, the Cuban Supreme Court commuted the death

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is under court

the Permanent Military Court in Gaza sentenced Mamdouh Mohammed 'Eid al-'Attar, residing inside the Green Line, to death by hanging. He was convicted of collaboration with hostile parties (Israel). The sentence was issued in absentia.

The issue of capital punishment in Belarus should be revisited, said President Alexander

Cuba has commuted the death sentence of a Salvadoran man convicted of killing an Italian

Four people were hanged in the prison of Isfahan, central Iran, early this morning.

Iraqi security forces have paraded 39 suspected al-Qaeda members accused of running terrorist operations

the order to produce Sodium Thiopental destined for US jails arrived directly from the American headquarters, based in Lake Forrest, Illinois, the dossier 'Lethal Trade' presented today in Rome by Hands Off Cain and Reprieve denounced.

in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, the Cassation Court approved the death