at an appeal trial the Vietnamese People’s Supreme Court confirmed Nguyen Duc Nghia's death

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said he would never sign former deputy premier Tareq Aziz's

a Japanese jury trial sent a man to the gallows for a double murder in the country's first death

Radical parliamentarian and Hands Off Cain treasurer Elisabetta Zamparutti today presented an urgent interrogation to the Council President and the Health Minister.

China's Supreme People's Court approved the death penalty of three men, it said in a

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland granted clemency to Sidney Cornwell a day before scheduled

One man was hanged in the prison of Ahvaz, southwest of Iran.

the Nyala General Court in Sudan issued death sentences against 20 people accused

the Hands Off Cain delegation in Mali (comprising Marco Pannella

"The new vote at the United Nations in favour of the moratorium records the positive

The UN General Assembly would, for the third time in four years, renew its call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty under the terms of a draft resolution approved today in the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) by a recorded vote.

a Pakistani court sentenced Asia Bibi, 37, a farm laborer from Ittanwali, Punjab