The news from the three battles.

SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

Saudi Arabia executed Ayed al-Dosari, a convicted Saudi murderer, in the town of Al-Kharj, just south of the capital Riyadh.

SINGAPORE. GOVERNMENT REJECTS CLEMENCY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW

Singapore's president rejected an appeal by the teenage children of Shanmugam Murugesu, a 38-year-old man on death row, saying he would not receive clemency and underlining the country's tough stand on drugs trafficking.

OHIO, USA. APPEAL SETBACK FOR RICHEY

the decision to overturn the conviction of death row Scot Kenny Richey was to be appealed to the US Supreme Court, prosecutors announced.

VIRGINIA, USA. 9/11 SUSPECT FACES DEATH PENALTY AFTER PLEADING GUILTY

Zacarias Moussaoui, the man who investigators believed could have unraveled the al-Qaida plot before the September 11 2001 attacks, pleaded guilty to terrorism and other charges carrying the death penalty.

INDIANA. EXECUTED FOR RAPE AND MURDER

the state of Indiana executed a man convicted of killing a teenage girl by forcing instant glue up her nose and taping her mouth shut after 12 days of rape and torture.

CHINA. WEN SAYS COUNTRY WORKING HARD TO RATIFY UN RIGHTS CONVENTION

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his country had made progress on improving its human rights record and said Beijing was working towards ratifying a UN convention on the issue.

AFGHANISTAN. WOMAN STONED TO DEATH FOR ADULTERY

an Afghan woman was stoned to death for adultery, police said, the first such incident in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power.

MALAYSIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING

Chong Chee Kong, a 46-year-old man who escaped from remand in Johor in 1989, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for drug trafficking. Kong, who had been on the run, was caught by police in 2001.

MEXICO. PARLIAMENT ABOLISHES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MILITARY CRIMES

Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies abolished the death penalty for military crimes.

the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed Richard Boyde's death sentence

the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed Richard Boyde's death sentence partly because the defense lawyer compared him to Charles Manson during closing arguments in the trial's penalty phase.

CALIFORNIA. LOS ANGELES TIMES CALLS FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY

CUBA. OLIVIERO TOSCANI’S EXHIBITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CASTRO’S REGIME OPENS IN BARCELONA

to keep public attention on the plight of political prisoners and the repression of dissent in Cuba two years after the wave of crackdowns, HOC and the ‘Fundació Llibertat i Democràcia’ have promoted an exhibition in Barcelona by Oliviero Toscani entitled