Somali military court handed a death sentence to two Al-Shabaab operatives for their role in the deadly attack on Nasa Hablod hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.
The Galle High Court handed down the death sentences to three suspects found guilty of murder.
Botswana continued executions this year, with the hanging of another death row inmate in 2018.
The implementation of the death penalty for drug offences has all but ended in Iran, although human rights advocates continue to express concern at the judicial system’s response to drugs.
A tribunal in Narayanganj awarded capital punishment to three people for killing a garment worker after rape.
Ethiopia pardoned an opposition leader with British citizenship who had been sentenced to death, the latest in a series of pardons and releases of jailed dissidents announced in the wake of years of violent unrest.
Zambian President Edgar Lungu pardoned 464 prisoners as part of the commemoration of this year's Africa Freedom Day which falls on May 25.
Williams, 36, Black, walked free from prison in Louisiana on May 21, 2018.
A court sentenced a man to death for his involvement in a murder case in Daska.
According to IHR sources, on the morning a prisoner was hanged at Isfahan Central Prison.
Manama upheld death sentences against two activists
An Iraqi court sentenced a Belgian jihadist, who threatened Europe in propaganda videos, to death by hanging for membership of the Islamic State group, an AFP journalist reported.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is an iranian writer and political activist condemned to six years of prison for having written a script, not published, that criticized the practice of stoning in Iran.
