Khristian Oliver was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 5 November. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Joe Collins committed during ...
Amnesty International is aware of at least 137 people currently on death row in Saudi Arabia, of which 106 are foreign nationals. The true figures are believed ...
Yong Vui Kong was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in January 2009. He had exhausted his appeals by October, and can now escape execution only if the president ...
Five men under sentence of death in Yemen could be executed as early as 11 November. They have exhausted all their appeals, and their death sentences have been ...
Nine people (apparently, eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese) have been sentenced to death for involvement in unrest earlier this year in western China. They have ...
Uighur journalist Hairat Niyaz was taken from his home on 1 October. On 4 October, police delivered a notice to his family which said he had been arrested for " ...
Since the beginning of 2009, Amnesty International has been concernedthat the South Korean government is taking steps towards resumingexecutions. Sixty prisoners ...
