With the release of an Italian passport, was reached a first positive result of the international campaign to save the life of Anthony Farina. The campaign was launched on October 1 in Rome by Hands Off Cain with the Community of Sant'Egidio, the British humanitarian organization "Reprieve" and the Northwestern University in Illinois. Farina, who was sentenced to death in Florida, and his family is originally from Santo Stefano di Camastra, a small coastal town in the province of Messina.

In Vietnam, many National Assembly deputies expressed their lack of sympathy with

Iranian state media reported a total of five people were executed in Shiraz and Zarand (Kerman Province) early this morning.

Voters in California voted down a referendum to abolish the death penalty, despite widespread

Gary Allen, 56, black, was executed in Oklahoma. Allen was sentenced to death in 1987

Iran executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran, a statement on the website of the prosecutor's

In Pakistan, the government plans to introduce a bill in parliament which will convert death

China will start phasing out the use of executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplants next

According to a report published by the Melli-Mazhabi website, four women have been stoned to death during the past days in Iran. Security agents from the Iranian Judiciary reportedly transferred the bodies of the four women to the Tehran forensic medicine department.

In Nigeria, a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja sentenced a 31-year-old electrician, Abdulkadri

An Iraqi court has convicted the country's Sunni vice president on charges of instigating bodyguards to

In Iran, eight prisoners transferred from Ghezelhesar prison to Evin were executed