A Maricopa County jury sentenced Sammantha Allen, 29, White, to death in the July 12, 2011 suffocation death of Ame Deal, 10, at the child's home.

A prisoner by the name of Hossein Sarooki was hanged in public in the city of Juybar on murder charges.

South Carolina prosecutors announced on July 25 that they would not appeal a trial court ruling, granting a new, non-capital trial to former death-row prisoner Simmons.

An official watchdog has found that Indonesia executed a Nigerian man last year while his case was unresolved, leading to renewed calls for a halt to a system holding hundreds of prisoners on death row.