following her appointment as Japanese Justice Minister, Keiko Chiba hoped to create a forum for debate.
Indonesian Nasir Ibrahim, 31, was given the mandatory death sentence by the Malaysian High Court after
Five people were hanged in the prison of Taybad, north-east of Iran reported the official news site of the Iranian police.
judicial commissioner Azman Abdullah of the Malaysian High Court dismissed an appeal by Azhar Abdul
the Al-Shabab Islamic Movement in Somalia sentenced a French national adviser who is being held in
Somalia's hardline Shebab Islamists publicly executed two people accused of spying for the US Central
Tetsuya Shiroo’s death sentence for murdering Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Ito was commuted to life
fifty participants representing different African Union member states and national human rights commissions appealed to African countries to emulate Rwanda and abolish the death penalty.
One woman was hanged in the prison of Sarakhs, north-east Iran, reported the state run Iranian news
the nigerian Federal Government recommended death penalty for fake drugdealers.
an appeal against one of the two death sentences imposed this year in Belarus will be heard by the Supreme
Officials in Kyrgyzstan called for the death penalty to be reinstated and said public executions could be
