Saudi Arabia executed a convicted Nigerian cocaine smuggler, the second Nigerian drug trafficker to be put

Justice Minister George Kunda told the Zambian Parliament that the death penalty will stay on the statute

a young man convicted of child rape was publicly hanged in Iran's central clerical capital of Qom, the

Sheika Haya Rashed al-Kalifa, president of the UN General Assembly, has confirmed her commitment to ensure Italy's initiative for the universal moratorium on capital punishment is successful. At the end of a

the Democratic-controlled Senate gave preliminary approval to the abolition of the death penalty in

Human Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia violated international law when it beheaded four Sri Lankan

US soldier Paul E Cortez, 24, admitted gang raping and murdering 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim al-

the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that, in 2006, Iraqi courts sentenced 235 persons to death

a career burglar was executed for torturing and killing a retired couple while breaking into their home in 1999.

Governor Martin O'Malley testified in favor of ending the state's death penalty law, saying capital

a Saudi court ordered the bodies of four Sri Lankans to be displayed in a public square after being

Italy is "working hard, within the shortest period of time, to hold a debate and a vote at the UN General Assembly on the proposal for the universal moratorium on capital punishment", Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Massimo D'Alema, announced in the Italian Senate.