MOSCOW Colonel Yuri Budanov is a convicted rapist and murderer.

A local court in northern Afghanistan in Mazar e Sharif has convicted him to death for the alleged blasphemy.

The case is then forwarded to the President for a final decision.

That way, if any convict worker escaped, he would be easy to find in an alien setting.

It is illegal to impose a life sentence or the death penalty on a convicted child under the Juvenile Code.

The 50 minute audio footage, which features the last moments of one unnamed death row inmate, is the first of its kind to have ever been released.

Socrates was accused of disobeying Athen's laws hurting youth ethics in the city, harming its gods, and was sentenced to death.

Pekka Paavola (born August 3, 1933 in Tampere) is a Finnish politician, Minister of Justice in the 1972 cabinet, and a convicted criminal in multiple cases.

The President of the Republic may pardon, commute or reduce a sentence imposed on a person convicted of an offence.

56. Article 14 (5) provides that everyone convicted of a crime shall have the right to have his conviction and sentence reviewed by a higher tribunal according to law.

The Afghan Association Blog Writers (Afghan Penlog), a community established by a group of Afghan activist bloggers, has expressed deep concern for a young journalist Sayed Parwiz Kambakhsh who was condemned to death by a local court.

During the reporting period she sent urgent appeals to Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia, all relating to persons sentenced to death for religious offences or offences against morals.

Within months Charles Taylor, who went on to become the first former head of state convicted of war crimes by an international criminal tribunal, had launched the reign of terror that would kill 250,000 people.

The Committee understands the continued anguish and mental stress caused to the author, as the mother of a condemned prisoner, by the persisting uncertainty of the circumstances that led to his execution, as well as the location of his gravesite.

An audio tape recorded 53 years ago of a death penalty execution in Japan, aired by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting on May 6th and and by Asahi television's Super Morning show on April 29th, has triggered conversations among bloggers about the country's death penalty system.

MOSCOW Colonel Yuri Budanov is a convicted rapist and murderer. After serving half his prison sentence for the rape and murder of an 18 year old Chechen, Elsa Kungayeva, he was released last December.

9.6 The author adds that the possibility of his resettling in Tanzania, as proposed by the State party, is not a realistic option, since that country is under no obligation to receive him, and most likely reluctant to accept a non national who had been convicted of a criminal offence.

5.3 The Committee notes that the author's claim that he was initially kept in a cell with 20 murder convicts at the headquarters of the Brigade mixte mobile has not been challenged by the State party, which has not adduced any exceptional circumstances which would have justified its failure to segregate the author from such convicts in order to emphasize his status as an unconvicted person.