a military court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, sentenced Firmin Yangambi, 41,

An Iranian opposition-run Web site says an appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a student who

Justices Imman Ali and Abdul Awal of the Bangladeshi High Court declared all

the cabinet in Bangladesh approved in principle the Border Guard Bangladesh Bill 2010, keeping a

Campaigners opposing Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill have taken an online petition to parliament

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