The news from the three battles.

UNITED NATIONS. UN BODY CONCERNED OVER JUVENILE EXECUTION IN IRAN

the representative of UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, condemned the execution of juveniles in Iran.

IRAN. FIVE HANGED FOR RAPE AND KIDNAPPING

five Iranian men convicted of kidnapping and rape were hanged in the southern cities of Kerman and Zahedan.

JAPAN. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR MAN WHO KILLED 2 IN OSAKA WHILE ON PAROLE

Japan’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Susumu Nakayama, a man who stabbed two people to death in Osaka Prefecture in 1998, seven years after he was released on parole while serving a life imprisonment sentence imposed for a separate murder an

MALAYSIA. COURT DISMISSES DEATH PENALTY APPEAL OF DECEASED MAN

the Malaysian Federal Court dismissed the appeal of businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy against his death sentence for murder. During the hearing, counsel Datuk Muhammad Shafee Abdullah informed the court that his client had died on May 8.

PAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE TO BE HANGED WITHIN NEXT THREE DAYS

it was reported that three death row convicts were scheduled to be hanged in the following three days

TAIWAN. NO VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said that Taiwan had not violated any human rights principles in its handling of capital punishment cases or in its treatment of death-row inmates, but it promised to refer to other countries' measures to refine the existing

SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

HANDS OFF CAIN: MYTH SURROUNDING HUMANENESS OF LETHAL INJECTION CRACKING, SERGIO D’ELIA

following the US Supreme Court’s decision to allow inmates to challenge lethal injection, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, Sergio D’Elia, declared: “Once again, following the abolition of the death penalty for those with mental retardation, for minors and th

IRAN. THREE MEN EXECUTED IN WESTERN IRAN

three men were hanged in city of Qazvin, west of Tehran.

IRAN. MINOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

a 17 year old boy was sentenced to death in Iran for murder, according to the daily ‘Etemad’.

UNITED STATES. COURT ALLOWS INMATE APPEAL ON LETHAL INJECTION

US Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate can bring a challenge under a federal civil rights law to the method of execution that uses a lethal three-chemical cocktail.

AZERBAIJAN. PRISONERS ON DEATH ON HUNGER STRIKE

109 prisoners whose verdict was replaced by life imprisonment after abolishment of capital punishment launched hunger strike.