The Xayabouly Provincial People’s Court on August 27,2025 sentenced a 29-year-old man to death after convicting him of trafficking methamphetamine and crystal meth. The ruling became public on 30 August.

The case of an Afghan teacher sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy will go before a Taliban appeals court by the end of September, local sources in Paktika province said on August 31, 2025.

A military prosecutor on August 21, 2025 demanded the death penalty for DR Congo's former president Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on treason charges.

The Taliban on August 30, 2025 publicly flogged six people in the Afghan capital after convicting them of drug‑related offenses, the group’s Supreme Court said.