an appeals court in Doha, Qatar, commuted the death sentences issued to three Iranians to life sentences
the Sindh Provincial High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, threw out a lower court's death sentence against a
two Thai nationals, Shalirm Yonha Koy and Smnoq Mintcho Keet, were beheaded in the Saudi Arabian city of Al Dammam for drug smuggling.
a motion hailing the Italian initiative on the moratorium on capital punishment was presented to the UK
Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the southern town of Roodan in Hormozgan province, according to the student ISNA news agency.
Saudi Arabia executed four Pakistanis convicted of murder and rape, the Saudi interior ministry announced
Aaron Lee Jones was executed by lethal injection for the gruesome 1978 slaying of a Blount County couple, a crime that made him one of the state's longest death row residents.
a Saudi Interior Ministry statement announced that the Shari'ah Court convicted Saudi citizen Sa'id Bin-
the United States Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of three Texas inmates in separate 5-4
in Malawi, the Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre declared that mandatory death
the culture committee of the Iranian parliament approved a bill sentencing to death
the Boston Globe Newspaper published an editorial in which it
To Mr Volker Turk - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and to Ms. Mai Sato - the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran
