A deputy speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament, who is already facing accusations of rape and sexual assault, was re-arrested on Wednesday on three counts of indecent assault. Nigel Evans, 55, a lawmaker in Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, was first arrested in May and released on bail. Returning to a police station on Wednesday as part of his bail conditions, he was told he faced additional allegations. All the claims involve men in their 20s.

As the state executioner for Virginia, Jerry Givens put to death 62 people, but after he ended up in jail himself for a crime which he says he did not commit, he has become an outspoken opponent of capital punishment. The 60-year-old African-American worked as a correctional officer in the southern US state between 1974 and 1999 when he was charged with money laundering and perjury and was forced to resign.

The UN's human rights office Friday criticised Papua New Guinea for reviving the death penalty, saying it was a backwards step and would not deter crime in the poverty-stricken Pacific nation. "We regret that Papua New Guinea has taken legislative action towards resuming implementation of the death penalty," said Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for human rights. "Given the global trend toward abolition of the death penalty, the latest move by the government marks a significant step backwards," he told reporters.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man convicted of raping and strangling a 10-year-old girl who lived next door to the halfway house where he resided more than 20 years ago was executed in Florida on Wednesday, a state prison official said. Elmer Leon Carroll, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. EDT from a lethal injection at the Florida State Prison near Starke, said Ann Howard, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Corrections.