The Round Table “Abolition of Death Penalty, UN World Moratorium and Accession to the International

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners, on the occasion of the birth on February 28 of his daughter Lalla Khadija, the Justice ministry affirmed.

Mohammad Sadiq Chirag Deen, a male Pakistani, and Mjedan bibi Mohammad Sherif, a female Pakistani,

Tunisian journalists published their plea for the abolition of the death penalty from the country's statute

after more than two years of trial, a Nairobi court found James Love Mwangongo guilty of murdering his

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.