the governors of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation called on the Federal Government to sentence
two men were hanged on September 3 in Aleppo, Syria, for armed robbery and murder, according to a foreign witness.
Seven Ahwazi Arab opposition activists have been sentenced to death in secret trials in Iran's Revolutionary
the Sana'a Appeal Court in Yemen upheld a death sentence against a Pakistani and jailed five others for 25
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed the executions of two inmates, hours after a federal appeals court
an Iranian man and woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning were freed on appeal,
The U.S. government has decided not to seek the death penalty against a Guantanamo detainee charged in
a Yemeni court sentenced two Pakistani fishermen to death and jailed two others for 25 years after
the Belarus Supreme Court rejected the final appeal against the death sentence given to Vasil Yuzepchuk,
having high-ranking officials speaking about reinstituting the death penalty will irreparably damage
The district court of Bosaso, in Puntland State of Somalia, sentenced one of five young defendants to
the Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, commuted the death sentences on four people to jail terms to
