Two prisoners were executed in Rajaei Shahr Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran.
According to a report by Azad News Agency (ANA), on the morning three prisoners were executed at Minab Prison.
Three paedophiles were publicly shot then hanged from a crane in Yemen as punishment for raping and killing a ten-year-old boy.
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 45 people to death over killing three people in an armed fight in the coastal province of Alexandria.
Saudi Arabia executed and crucified a Myanmar man in the holy city of Mecca in a rare form of punishment reserved for the most egregious crimes.
The Saudi Specialized Criminal Court sentenced a Saudi national to death for receiving funds and weapons smuggled by sea from abroad.
Two former Army officers have been sentenced to death by the Trincomalee High Court for assaulting and murdering an individual from Gurunagar area in Jaffna after taking him in for interrogations, says Ada Derana reporter.
A Chinese drug lord known as the 'godfather of crystal meth' was sentenced to death.
The High Court upheld the death sentence of three convicts over the killing of minor boy Salman Sami in Dhaka in 2011.
The Parliament passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 with the Rajya Sabha clearing it by a voice vote.
An Indian man, who was on death row for murdering a compatriot over bootlegging will travel back to his home country a free man, later today
A 25-year-old youth was awarded a death sentence in Madhya Pradesh for raping and killing a six-year-old girl
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.
