Additional district and session judge Kasur Aaqil Hussain Chohan awarded the death

An Iranian provincial prosecutor has warned that the "few elements" behind post-

the seminar that followed the June 10th Conference in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the abolition of capital punishment has ended. The seminar topic was communication regarding the death penalty.

the court in Damanhur, Egypt, confirmed the death sentence given to 24 people on

criminals sentenced to death in Beijing, China, are to be killed by lethal injection, not by

The European Union protested against reported executions in Iraq and called on

Hands Off Cain organised a conference in Kinshasa against the death penalty in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that was sponsorsed by the Congolese National Assembly President and Senate President, with the contribution of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

the Algerian Government rejected a proposal to abolish the death penalty based on the struggle against Islamic terrorism, and security and organised crime considerations.

A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia for murdering his nephew

Al Shabaab militants, who control Mogadishu’s Baidoa town, the former seat of

a Sudanese court sentenced another 12 Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on

the Council of Europe's (CE) Deputy Secretary General, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio,