it was reported that the Italian embassy in Kabul may ask for the commutation into life imprisonment of the death sentences handed down to brothers Zar Jan and Abdul Wahid for the murders of Maria Grazia Catulli and three other journalists in November 2001.

53 parliamentarians have so far given their support to Hands Off Cain’s appeal aimed at California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to halt the scheduled execution Stanley Williams.

the California Supreme Court refused to stop the execution due on December 13 of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the 51-year-old founder of the notorious Crips gang, who is set to die by lethal injection at California's San Quentin prison on December 13.

a convicted murderer was put to death in the nation's 1,000th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977. Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m., said state Department of Correction spokeswoman Pam Walker.

Singapore executed Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van just before dawn despite repeated pleas by Australia's government for clemency.

two more of Italy’s regional ‘Governors’ added their support to the appeal aimed at California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in order to halt the execution of Stanley Williams, scheduled to take place on December 13.

six men from the same family were hanged in Pakistan for the 1989 killing of three men they believed had insulted some of their womenfolk.

Saudi national Hadi Bin-Umayr Bin-Muhammad al-Manjahi was executed in Al-Qahmah, in Saudi Arabia’s Asir region, after being found guilty of shooting dead his Saudi wife Zaynah Bint-Yahya Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mashari following an argument.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa commuted death sentences handed down on 12 criminals convicted for violent crimes including murder, commissioner of prisons Jethro Mumbuwa announced.

Italy’s deputies and senators are also collecting signatures to ask California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Stanley Williams, scheduled to be executed on December 13.

Nguyen Tuong Van, an Australian heroin trafficker on death row in Singapore still had his sense of humor just days before his scheduled execution on December 2, his lawyer said.

Gov. Mark Warner spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The governor commuted Robin Lovitt's death sentence to life in prison without parole.