ten years after his arrest, Pharuehas Krirkkreosakul was sentenced to death by the Thai Supreme Court
in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, the Criminal Court sentenced five people to death for drug possession and trafficking through the Oman-Ras Al Khaimah border.
long incarceration and socio-economic factors leading to crime are relevant and mitigating
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) said it had issued guidelines for courts nationwide to handle criminal cases with a policy of "justice tempered with mercy," stressing that death penalty use be limited.
an Iranian has been condemned to death for anti-government riots at the
In a 22-page order filed today in Greenwood County Circuit Court, Judge J. Mark Hayes II ordered that Edward Lee Elmore cannot be executed because he is mentally retarded.
the Court of Cassation in Jordan overturned the death sentence of a women convicted of killing her mother-
a former local official in east China's Anhui Province was sentenced to death
the National Constitutional Conference in Zambia upheld the Constitution’s death penalty
Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, 62, said that a 19 year old man
Death row inmate Mark Brown was executed via lethal injection in Ohio for the murders
President Barack Obama denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that calls for the
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
