regarding the execution in the United States of John Allen Muhammad, better known as the 'Washington Sniper', Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D'Elia told ADNKRONOS: “the execution carried out today in Virginia doesn’t halt the decrease of both the death penalty and executions in the US in the last few years. Furthermore, the number of detainees on death row is down.”

military judges in Lebanon issued death sentences to four people found guilty of collaborating with Israel.

a court in El-Tor, Egypt, sentenced four Jordanians to death for trying to smuggle hashish. The verdict has

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan voted to reject a United Nations protocol banning the death penalty in a move

Saudi Arabia beheaded two Saudis convicted of murder in the western city of Taif , the interior ministry said

Kurdish political prisoner Ehsan Fattahian was hanged in the prison of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of

The man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in and around Washington DC was executed after a final appeal was thrown out. John Allen Muhammad's lawyers say he was mentally ill, but Virginia Governor Tim Kaine rejected a plea for clemency.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev favors the gradual abolition of the death penalty, Presidential

A teenager who raped and killed a girl child was sentenced to death by a Taiz Primary Court and also fined

Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until

Chinese authorities have executed nine people who had been convicted over riots in the Xinjiang region in July, Chinese officials have said.

Hasan bin Ahmed al-Qarni was beheaded by the sword in the western region of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.