a Yemeni was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia for garrotting a compatriot with
Three Moroccans were sentenced to death by a court of Meknès (120 km east of
Sudanese authorities executed nine men from Darfur for murder, state media and a police source said.
the Radical parliamentarians joining the Democratic Party (PD), the first signatory being
the Lahore High Court in Pakistan abolished the death sentence for under-trial women
a Saudi Arabian man convicted of rape and robbery was beheaded. An Interior
Iran executed three people, two of them University students, convicted of being involved in the bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz which killed 14 people and injured 200 others in April 2008.
China executed two Uygurs in the restive northwestern Xinjiang region for a ''terrorist''
a Malaysian court sentenced two policemen to death for murdering a Mongolian
the death sentence issued in Iran to Kurdish journalist Hiwa Boutimar was suspended,
the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court sentenced two Tibetans to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa in March 2008.
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded three Pakistanis convicted of killing a fellow Pakistani man, the Interior Ministry said in a statement in state news agency SPA.