the Democratic-controlled Senate gave preliminary approval to the abolition of the death penalty in

Human Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia violated international law when it beheaded four Sri Lankan

US soldier Paul E Cortez, 24, admitted gang raping and murdering 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim al-

the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that, in 2006, Iraqi courts sentenced 235 persons to death

a career burglar was executed for torturing and killing a retired couple while breaking into their home in 1999.

Governor Martin O'Malley testified in favor of ending the state's death penalty law, saying capital

a Saudi court ordered the bodies of four Sri Lankans to be displayed in a public square after being

Italy is "working hard, within the shortest period of time, to hold a debate and a vote at the UN General Assembly on the proposal for the universal moratorium on capital punishment", Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Massimo D'Alema, announced in the Italian Senate.

a Moroccan court sentenced a man to death for killing an Italian diplomat and his Belgian spouse.

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