a Kurdish citizen was sentenced to death by a revolutionary court
A Saudi man was decapitated by the sword in the eastern city of Dammam, in Saudi
USA - Utah. Judge Robin Reese has signed the death warrant for Ronnie Lee Gardner, who choose to die by firing squad.
the Democratic Republic of Congo's military high court overturned the death sentences
William Berkley, convicted of the 2000 rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman, was executed in Texas by lethal injection, the state's sixth execution this year, prison officials said.
Nigeria's state governors backed the execution of more than 300 prisoners
in Taiwan, the Taipei High Court sentenced Hsiao Jen-chun and Liao
in Lebanon, military investigation judge Fadi Sawan Sentenced two Palestinians
a military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo handed down death
in the United Arab Emirates, the Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance sentenced
Iran hanged two convicted rapists in a prison in the central city
Iran hanged four men in a prison in the southeastern province of Kerman for drug smuggling
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
