Items related to death penalty

Gang rape convicts get reduced sentences on appeal
Al-Masry Al-Youm 24 Apr 2013
Kafr al-Sheikh Criminal Court reduced the sentences of eleven convicted rapists Tuesday, handing them prison terms on...
Latest victim of Port Said violence dies, raising the city's death toll to 48
Al-Masry Al-Youm 20 Mar 2013
  Salah Abdel Azim, 25, died Wednesday at the Mansoura University Hospital to become the 48th victim of Port Said...
HRW, Amnesty urge Saudis to halt execution of 7 men
AFP 05 Mar 2013
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International urged Saudi authorities to halt Tuesday's scheduled executions of...
Ali Gomaa, Egypt's Grand Mufti, speaking during a joint press conference with Ahmed Zaki Badr, Minister of Education, Cairo, April 26, 2010. Gomaa and Badr presented on proposed collaboration to develop school curricula based on faith and interfaith concepts.
Grand mufti approves death penalty for 'Innocence of Muslims' producers
MENA
Egypt Independent
29 Jan 2013
Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa has approved a death sentence delivered in absentia for seven Coptic Egyptian expats...
Iran 'suspends death sentence' against web programmer
AFP 02 Dec 2012
  Iran has suspended the death sentence against a computer programmer convicted for allegedly designing a...
Iraqi officers in a graduation ceremony at a police academy. A suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded more than 20 others as he blew himself up in front of a police academy in Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi security officials said. (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Iraq executes 10, including Egyptian
AFP 11 Nov 2012
Iraqi authorities executed 10 men on Sunday, a spokesperson said, bringing to 129 the number of people put to death...
Dr. Ali Gomaa, Mufti of Egypt
Grand mufti to decide on death sentence in Ismailia mosque murder case
Egypt Independent 10 Nov 2012
  Ismailia Criminal Court on Saturday adjourned its final verdict in the case of a man murdered while praying...
Dr. Ali Gomaa, Mufti of Egypt
Court refers 19 convicts to grand mufti for sentencing recommendation
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Oct 2012
An Ismailia court referred 19 defendants convicted of murder to Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa Thursday to decide whether they...
Arish Harbor
Death penalty for 14 convicted of killing Arish security officers
Al-Masry Al-Youm 14 Aug 2012
The Ismailia Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced 14 members of a Jihadist group to death for attacking a police station...
Ahmed al-Gizawy, an Egyptian human rights lawyer arrested in Saudi Arabia in April 2012 on drug smuggling allegations.
Saudi prosecutors demand death sentence for Egyptian lawyer Gizawy
Egypt Independent 17 Jul 2012
  Saudi prosecutors have requested the death penalty for an Egyptian lawyer charged with smuggling illicit drugs...