the European Union condemned the resumption of executions in Taiwan,
two soldiers Sergeant-Major Seba Tandema and Sergeant Oscar Tchenda Kashama and
in Iran, Tehran lawyer Nasim Ghanavi told the International Campaign for Human
The American Board of Anesthesiologists has decided to revoke the certification of any member who participates in executing a prisoner by lethal injection.
One person was hanged in the prison of Ardebil, in northwestern Iran.
Taiwan executed four people, the justice ministry said, in the island's first cases of capital punishment since 2005 when the sentence became a sensitive political issue.
one man was hanged in the prison of Khash, according to the official site of the Iranian judiciary in Sistan-Baluchestan.
two Sudanese men were executed for killing four oil workers, two of them Chinese, and looting their vehicle in 2004 at Heglig in Kordofan state
in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, two men were sentenced to death
Saudi Arabian national Hussein al-Darwish was beheaded by the sword in Qatif
Saudi authorities executed a man by beheading after he was sentenced to death
Samuel Bustamante was executed in Texas. Bustamante, 40, hispanic, was convicted in 2001 of the January 18, 1998 robbing and slaying of Rafael Alvarado, 27, an illegal immigranta from Mexico.
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
