male prostitute Russell Mezan, 26, from Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by the
Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said Russia has refrained from ratifying Protocol 6 to the
the Council of Europe denounced the execution of two death row inmates in Belarus.
Taiwan's new justice minister, who was appointed after his predecessor refused to authorise executions,
it was reported that Jandarshah Nabizada, 16, from Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province
two men were executed in Belarus at the end of last week, Amnesty International reported.
an Egyptian court in al-Sharqiya in the northern Nile Delta sentenced four men to death
A Virginia man who killed a 16-year-old girl and then waited in her home to rape and stab her 14-year-old sister in 1999 was executed in the state's electric chair.
Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a Lebanese
The UPA government made the anti-hijacking law much tougher by including death sentence as a punishment.
The National Assembly speaker demanded the abolition of the death penalty in South
A death row inmate who tried to kill himself last week by overdosing on pills as
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
