The Colombo High Court on April 28, 2025 imposed the death penalty on five individuals for the brutal killing of a 21-year-old youth adjacent to a temple in Mattakkuliya in 2012.

2 Unk women and Mohammadreza Damideh, Amirahmad Sanayi, Sajad Barahouyi

Marjan Sabzi, Reza Khaledi, Naser Feyzi, Rouhollah Palangi, Mohammad Tootazehie, Abdolrashid Barahouei

Mehran Shamlooei, Abbas Soori, and Narges Nasri

The Correctional Facilities Sector at the Kuwait Ministry of Interior executed five individuals convicted of premeditated murder at the Central Prison on April 28, 2025.

The Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia has issued an advisory informing citizens that a man has been sentenced to death on April 26, 2025.

The Colombo High Court on April 24, 2025 sentenced a man to death for the murder of a woman whose body was found concealed in a travel bag—an incident that sent shockwaves across the country back in 2015.

Nine individuals received death sentences on April 26, 2025 for their roles in a major drug trafficking ring, which smuggled 91 kilograms of drugs hidden inside air purifiers and motorbikes from Cambodia into Vietnam.