Taiwan’s Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu said there was no need to hold a
The state of Texas executed by lethal injection a 41-year-old man convicted in
Two drug traffickers have been sentenced to death for dealing large amounts of crystal methamphetamine, or "ice", in east China's Zhejiang Province, sources with the local court said.
Kenya rejected a UN proposal to delete the death penalty from its law books among
Singapore's law minister K Shanmugam justified imposing the mandatory death penalty for drug
Roy Bennett, a leading opponent of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert
the Beirut Military Tribunal in Lebanon sentenced a Lebanese Army
Iran hanged six men convicted of drug trafficking in
five Kurdish activists, including a woman, were hanged in Iran's notorious Evin Prison.
in India, judge M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Pakistani Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab
more than a 100 death sentences are pending before Afghani President Karzai. Deputy
a 28-year-old Jordanian man was sentenced to death by the Amman Criminal Court
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
