The news from the three battles.

BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING TEENAGE GIRL

Mominul Islam was sentenced to death in Rangpur, Bangladesh...

JAPAN. PSYCHIATRIST BACKS SHOKO ASAHARA

Shoko Asahara, the Aum Supreme Truth founder sentenced to death over a 1995 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, is mentally unfit and shows no reaction to his children, psychiatrist Haruo Akimoto said.

Curtis Giovanni Flowers has won a new trial in the killings...

Curtis Giovanni Flowers has won a new trial in the killings of 4 people because prosecutors sought to keep blacks off his Montgomery County jury, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.

MALAYSIA. DEATH PENALTY WON'T BE ABOLISHED, GOVERNMENT

the death penalty will be maintained to show the Government’s seriousness in curbing serious crimes, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk M. Kayveas said, adding that the punishment was based on the principles of prevention and was in

CHINA. 52 EXECUTED ON ANTI-DRUG DAY

according to reports from the Chinese government's state-run media organization, Xinhua News Agency, China has executed in the last week as many as 52 people found guilty of drug law violations.

Sedley Alley, 50, was pronounced dead at 2:12 a.m. at the state's death chamber...

Sedley Alley, 50, was pronounced dead at 2:12 a.m. at the state's death chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in west Nashville.

RUSSIA. MOST RUSSIANS AGAINST ABOLISHMENT OF DEATH PENALTY, SPEAKER

Russia has not formally abolished the death penalty because such a move would not get the support of the majority of the population, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament said.

IRAN. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING

MALAYSIA. BAR COUNCIL RENEWES CALL FOR DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION

the Bar Council renewed its call for the abolishment of capital punishment in Malaysia reasoning that the death penalty is a cruel and extreme form of punishment.

IRAN. FIVE WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING IN PAST TWELVE MONTHS

the mullahs' regime has sentenced a woman, Ashraf Kalhori, to death by stoning, according to reports received.

NORTH KOREA. THREE PUBLICLY EXECUTED

Good Friend, a support organization for North Korea with news from internal sources, revealed that on May 17th and 19th, public executions were administered on the riverbanks of the Susung creek next to the Sunam market in Chongjin.

IRAQ. SAVING SADDAM FROM EXECUTION IS OPPORTUNITY FOR ITALY FOLLOWING DECISION TO WITHDRAW TROOPS, ROSE IN THE FIST

“What is the Italian government’s intention regarding the offer made by Marco Pannella for a special appointment to save Saddam from execution, and with Saddam’s life, the life of the rights and the civility which he massacred during 50 years of bloody ru