The United Arab Emirates has cancelled a death sentence issued earlier this year to an Israeli woman who was convicted of cocaine possession, her lawyer said on 28 June 2022.

A court in Cairo on 28 June 2022 sentenced 10 people to death and 56 others to life imprisonment in a mass trial of the case against the Helwan Brigades, whose members have been accused of committing violent acts in Egypt.

The news was released on June 21 by Hengaw

An Ado-Ekiti High Court has sentenced four men, Babangida Amodu, 25, Oluwafemi Ibrahim, 20, Ojo Ayodele, 25, and Okunato Dada, 20, convicted of armed robbery and murder, to die by hanging, the Eagle Online reported on June 27, 2022.

A court in East Burdwan’s Katwa on 24 June 2022 handed the death penalty to a youth for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 2018.

A total of 239 are on death row in Jordan, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Legal Committee Ghazi Al-Thneibat announced on 26 June 2022.

Saudi authorities have released Murtaja Qureiris, who was once considered to be the kingdom's youngest political prisoner, a human rights group confirmed on 24 June 2022.

Uzbekistan has proposed to ban the death penalty. The corresponding item was included in the draft law on amendments and additions to the constitution of the republic, published in the parliamentary newspaper Narodnoye Slovo on 25 June 2022.