Datuk Wira Low Bop Bing, Datuk Clement Allan Skinner and Justice Sangau Gunting of

according to the official Xinhua News Agency, China executed truck driver

in Kericho, Kenya, Chief Magistrate Hedwig Ong'undi sentenced Isaac Kipng'etich Bett, Jackson

Justice Datuk Zakiah Kassim of the Malaysian High Court sentenced Indonesian national Effendi, 25, and

in Nigeria, Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema commuted the death sentence passed on eight prisoners

two unidentified government soldiers were executed in Mogadishu, Somalia

Benin took an important step towards abolishing the death penalty after the country’s National Assembly voted in favour of ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which calls for the death penalty to be abolished.

in Saudi Arabia, brothers Muhammad and Saud Al-Joaed were beheaded in Taif in the Mecca Province for murdering Hilal Al-Harithy with a gun in a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.

a man, identified only by the initials H.D., was hanged in the southern Iranian town of Minab on charges of drug smuggling. The report in the "Kayhan" newspaper did not say whether the execution was carried out in public.

a 19-year-old unidentified man convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy was hanged in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, the Khorasan newspaper reported. He was executed in the city’s central prison, the report added.

Iran hanged a man, identified by the initials HS, for murdering an eight-year-old boy in Qom who was on his way from home to a nearby grocery shop, the Fars news agency reported. He was hanged in a prison in Qom in the presence of the victim's family.