a mother and son were taken before a firing squad in the industrial town of Surabaya on Java island, Indonesia, their lawyer Soeteja Djajasmita said.

in West Java, Indonesia, a man convicted of murder was executed in Banten province, according to prosecutor Lari Gau. Tubagus Yusuf Maulana, alias Usep, was killed at 10.30 pm.

the Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld a death conviction of a 27 year old man found guilty of murder. Levi Nuwamanya, a businessman from Rukungiri town, was found guilty of killing his lover, Enid Tumuhimbise, on December 22, 2003, for unknown reasons.

an octogenarian man was shot dead in public on the orders of a local jirga that found him 'guilty' of kidnapping a girl in the Kala Dhaka tribal area in Pakistan, sources said.

four condemned prisoners were hanged in Faisalabad District Jail in Pakistan.

the Pakistani Government has not forwarded a formal proposal for commuting all death sentences into life imprisonment terms to President Pervez Musharraf, despite an announcement by the Prime Minister nearly a month ago, the country's Attorney General said. Attorney General Malik Qayyum said:

two Kurdish activists were condemned to death in a closed court hearing in the Iranian city of Sanandaj.

the Argentine Congress eliminated the Military Code of Justice, thereby eliminating a special jurisdiction dating back to the 19th century, as well as burying the last vestige of the death penalty and ending punishment for homosexuality.

US President George W Bush approved the death penalty for a soldier of Pvt. Ronald A. Gray, convicted by court-martial of two homicides and three rapes at Fort Bragg, N.C. in 1986-87.

Iran hanged two prisoners, identified as Yaser K., 22, and Mahmoud, 33, in the prison yard in the central city of Isfahan.

Iran hanged 29 people at dawn after they had been convicted of murder, drug trafficking and other crimes, state run television reported.

regarding the 29 executions in Iran, Sergio D’Elia, Hands Off Cain Secretary, stated: “The executions today in Iran further prove the danger posed by Ahmadinejad. Many acknowledge and attempt to prevent the future threats to peace and world security represented by the Mullah’s regime. However, it seems that few acknowledge and prevent the daily threats practiced for decades by the Iranian regime against its own people.