nine people received the death penalty from two courts in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. According to
a former Beijing court president was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in China for bribery and embezzlement.
the Tanzanian government said that the last time a person was hanged in the country was in 1994, while the number of inmates on death row currently stands at 286.
MPs in the Legislative Chamber (lower house) of the Oliy Majlis (parliament) in Uzbekistan approved a
Japan defied international opinion by executing two men on the same day that the UN issued a report critical
the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry said that Abdullah Suleiman, a Yemeni man convicted of murder, was
Amnesty International said that the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13 years old, not 23,
a Saudi Arabian convicted of rape was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh, the interior
A former plumbing supply salesman was executed in Texas for strangling and raping
An Iraqi court sentenced a militant to death by hanging for the killing of three U.S. soldiers in 2006.
Japan hanged two more death-row inmates as the country steps up executions to a pace unseen in three decades, despite an ongoing UN review of its rights record.
Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking, the Fars news agency reported. The executions took
