the United Arab Emirates Appeal Court upheld the death sentence against a 22 year old Pakistani man,
the Italian Senate approved a draft law to modify article 27 of the Constitution (226 votes in favour, 12 abstained and no votes contrary). The law is designed to abolish the death penalty also from wartime military laws.
Iran executed five men convicted of murder, the semi-official
a man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection for a 1980 murder but only after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
Ghana’s President, John Kufuor, freed or commuted the sentences of 1,206 prisoners to mark the 50th
inspired by Iranian Nobel Prize Shrin Ebadi's plea, Hands Off Cain decided to dedicate this year's International Women's Day, March 8, to all Iranian woman, particularly to the activists arrested last Sunday.
Texas executed a San Antonio man condemned to death for the murders of two rivals in a 1994 gang leadership dispute.
efforts to stop the imminent execution of three Iraqi women seem to have had an effect, as the executions of
approved by the state House of Representatives, Texas is trying to pass a Bill to harshly prosecute child
The Ethiopian Federal Supreme Court upheld death sentences passed by the Federal High Court on five
Saudi Arabia executed a man convicted of murder. Miftah bin Hilal al-Fahmi was executed in the province
The Florida commission charged with examining the state’s botched execution of Angel Diaz has urged
Every Tuesday hunger strike against executions