a court in southwestern China has secretly executed a man who took part in an environmental protest which turned into a riot, a lawyer and a family member said. Three others were jailed, one of them for life, they said.

Nature Magazine has published a report claiming that there is new evidence to the innocence of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of causing a HIV pandemic in a Benghazi hospital.

in a ruling that may put all executions on hold in the state of Kentucky, a Franklin County Circuit Judge held that the state must hold public hearings because it changed the way the state plans to carry out executions.

on Cities for Life Day the book “An Eye for An Eye” by Sandro Veronesi was presented in Rome at Hands Off Cain headquarters.

“The abolition of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan is fully in line with the mentality of the Kyrgyz people,” Kyrgyz Justice Minister Marat Kayypov said at a news conference.

a new report out shows that Texas death sentences have dropped by 65 % in the past 10 years.

Saatchi & Saatchi has created a banner for the collection of signatures in favour of a UN moratorium on executions and for the “Hands Off Saddam” appeal.

the Council of Europe will insist that Russia ratify Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, so as to abolish the death penalty in the country.

it was reported that Iran publicly hanged four men convicted of murder in the southeastern city of Zahedan and Langerood in northern Gilan province.

Ainal Haq, 30, was hanged in Mymensingh Central Jail, Bangladesh, at 12:01 am local time for killing his pregnant wife.

Safiqul Islam Montu, 45, was executed in Comilla Central Jail, Bangladesh, at 12:30am local time.

a state security court in Ismailiya, 75 miles east of Cairo, convicted and sentenced to death three Islamic militants for their role in a suicide attack that killed 34 people at tourist resorts in the Sinai town of Taba in 2004.