Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, on May 12, 2025 sentenced Augustine Bangura, a Sierra Leonean national, to death having found him guilty of killing a British national, Shakina Chinedu.

A High Court in Kano has sentenced one Adamu Isma’ila Arzai to death by hanging for killing his friend during a fight over a cap, Daily Post reported on May 13, 2025.

A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka on May 8, 2025 awarded death penalty to three accused and life term imprisonment to five others in a triple murder case in Munshiganj.

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview on May 3, 2025.