eight men have been hanged in Iran recently for murder, drug trafficking.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out the death sentence of Charles Dean Hood, whose
Iran executed Jundullah terrorist organisation leader Abdolmalek Rigi's brother
judges Jarad, Atoun and Nahar of the Jordanian Criminal Court sentenced a man
Italy is preparing a new resolution at the United Nations to abolish capital punishment worldwide
Sudan released 50 Darfur rebels who had been sentenced to death, under a new truce agreement
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has told an anti-death penalty conference
South Korea’s highest court upheld the death penalty, 13 years after the last execution
according to the International Network Iran Human Rights 2009 Report there were 402 executions
in Yemen, the Taiz Appeal Court upheld Akram al-Samawi’s death sentence for raping
Belarus will seek its own way to ban capital punishment, Nikolai Samoseiko, Chairman
in Gaza, Palestine, the Court of First Instance sentenced A. Gh., 30, to
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
