the number of inmates slated for execution in Japan hit 100, with a fifth of the sentences coming in the last

Senators and lower house lawmakers wrote the banning of the death penalty into the French Constitution.

a Nigerian man was executed by sword in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The man, identified as Omar, was

Iranian authorities in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern Iran, hanged a man in public for his alleged role in last

Iran's Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence of a 20 year old woman identified as Darabi,

Noor Muhammad, alias Mirch Kalhoro, was executed for murder in Larkana Central Prison, Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia executed four Sri Lankans for a series of violent robberies in the conservative kingdom. A

Russia has signed the "Declaration of Association" on the death penalty that was presented to the UN by the

Chinese court has ordered the death penalty for a businessman accused of deceiving investors out of 385

a 45 year old Iranian man, identified as Jamshid T., was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates by

Four Iranian men convicted of murdering four people in separate incidents were hanged in Tehran, the

Iran executed three men who were convicted of deadly bombings in the southwest oil city of Ahvaz in 2005,