The news from the three battles.

CHINESE SECRETLY EXECUTED AFTER PROTEST

a court in southwestern China has secretly executed a man who took part in an environmental protest which turned into a riot, a lawyer and a family member said. Three others were jailed, one of them for life, they said.

LIBYA. NEW EVIDENCE MAY EXONERATE BULGARIA’S NURSES

Nature Magazine has published a report claiming that there is new evidence to the innocence of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of causing a HIV pandemic in a Benghazi hospital.

SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS A PAKISTANI AND HIS DAUGHTER CONVICTED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING

SOMALIA. OFFICIAL THREATENS BEHEADINGS FOR NOT PRAYING 5 TIMES DAILY

residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an official said, adding that the edict will be implemented in three days.

CHINA. DEATH FOR WOMAN WHO STABBED LOVER TO DEATH

the shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Yan...

IRAQI COURT SENTENCES LIBYAN TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM

an Iraqi court sentenced a Libyan member of al-Qaida in Iraq to death after he admitted taking part in eight attacks on US-led coalition forces and Iraqi targets...

JAPAN. MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 2 WOMEN IN FUKUSHIMA PREF.

the Sendai High Court, Japan, sentenced a 53-year-old man to death for killing a woman and her daughter and stealing some 50,000 yen in cash in Fukushima Prefecture in 2004, scrapping a sentence of life imprisonment imposed by a lower court.

IRAN. PARISA AKBARI, ORIGINALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING, "RELEASED"

Parisa Akbari, one of the Iranian women sentenced to death by stoning for "adultery," was released from jail as a free woman after receiving 99 lashes for having sex outside of marriage.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine postponed the execution of Percy Walton...

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine postponed the execution of Percy Walton to allow more time to review claims the condemned inmate is mentally retarded and insane.

Eugene McWatters, 28, was sentenced to death for the rape and strangling...

Eugene McWatters, 28, was sentenced to death for the rape and strangling...

CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ANHUI FOR SERIAL RAPE

Shi Jidong, a farmer from Dingyuan, a county in east China's Anhui Province, was sentenced to death after being convicted of raping three girls and attempting to rape six more.

IRAN PUBLICLY HANGS MAN FOR MURDER

an unidentified Iranian man convicted of murder and armed robbery...